UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

The imposing stone facade of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia, looms against the sky like ...

For West Virginia residents, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum represents an important piece of local history. Many families ...

Discover how Traverse City’s former psychiatric hospital turned into a vibrant hub of dining, shopping, and history-filled adventure. Photo: Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane (as it was called) ...

Article 14 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: Everyone has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. The 1951 UN Convention relating to the Status ...

Poland on Wednesday temporarily suspended the right of migrants arriving in the country via its border with Belarus to apply for asylum. Prime Minister Donald Tusk declared that the contentious ...

A controversial legislative bill has been signed into law by Poland’s president, officially suspending the right for people to claim asylum within its territory. The move has been condemned by ...

EXCLUSIVE: Angels in the Asylum, a British indie film starring Simon Pegg and Katherine Waterston, has stopped shooting indefinitely after running out of cash midway through production ...

Kruger Castro said before President Trump returned to office, volunteers at orientations like this might explain how people could apply for asylum, a legal protection designed to allow people ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s President ...

Asylum seekers could face restrictions on their movement, having to report regularly to authorities and possible detention in their accommodation centres, under a migration regime due to come into ...