Sweden's government has nominated Jesper Brodin, a veteran executive at the world's biggest furniture brand IKEA, to head the ...

Sweden has nominated Jesper Brodin, outgoing CEO of Ingka Group, to lead the U.N. Refugee Agency. Brodin is expected to bring business acumen to the role amid significant funding challenges. The ...

Across Europe, ethnic tensions have been on the rise. And this morning, we're zooming in on one country, Sweden. For decades, it had a virtual open-door policy for asylum-seekers and refugees. But now ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, January 12 (UNHCR) - As a Swedish parliamentarian, Hanif Bali is particularly interested in the welfare of unaccompanied refugee children in his adopted homeland. It's an issue that ...

The European Union should forge ahead with plans to boost migrant deportations and set up return centres outside the bloc or ...

Sweden nominated Jesper Brodin for the role, believing that future humanitarian efforts require new forms of leadership in which collaboration between development cooperation and business plays a key ...

It’s not only people with asylum backgrounds who risk losing permanent residence under the proposals, but also those who ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 15, 2007 — -- One of the more unfortunate byproducts of the Iraq War is the massive exodus of refugees. In what may be the biggest refugee crisis since 1948, more than 2 ...

AMMAN, Jordan, Dec 10 (UNHCR) - For more than a year and a half, they had lived under tents in the inhospitable desert of the no man's land between Jordan and Iraq. In the early hours of Thursday, ...

PM said in January there was 'obviously a risk' that the killing of Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika was linked to foreign powers ...

Perpetua Nkwocha currently uses her spare time to coach migrants in a programme which has been set-up by her club Former Super Falcons forward, Perpetua Nkwocha now coaching refugees in Sweden S Steve ...