A record number of refugees have crossed the Mediterranean into Europe this year, breaching the half-a-million mark for the past nine months, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). 　　As of Tuesday, the group said 522,124 people had travelled by sea to reach the continent. 　　About 388,000 have entered... More

　　The year 2015 was the deadliest on record for refugees trying to reach Europe by sea, with 3,771 deaths recorded in the Mediterranean alone, the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday. 　　The Mediterranean was followed by Southeast Asia, mostly in the Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, Malaysia and Thailand,... More

　　On January 7, a low-flying agricultural aircraft sprayed herbicides onto Palestinian farmlands along the eastern border, eradicating or damaging up to 162 hectares of crops and farmland along the Israeli border fence. 　　"Herbicides are sprayed in high concentrations. Thus, they remain embedded in the soil, and then find their way... More

　　More than 10,000 unaccompanied refugee and migrant children have disappeared in Europe, the EU police agency Europol said on Sunday, fearing many have been whisked into sex trafficking rings or the slave trade. 　　Europol's press office confirmed to Al Jazeera the figures published in British newspaper The Observer. 　　The number... More

　　Israel's Shin Bet domestic security agency abuses Palestinians under interrogation in a manner so systematic it points to official endorsement, two Israeli NGOs said in a report published Wednesday. 　　The 70-page joint study by rights groups B'Tselem and Hamoked is based on accounts by 116 suspects interrogated at Shikma prison... More

　　According to the latest Palestinian figures, since Oct. 1 of last year, at least 186 Palestinians have been killed and another 15,645 injured by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip and in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. 　　Over the same period, according to Israeli figures, 33 Israelis have... More

　　Of some 5.3 million people displaced by fighting in northwestern Pakistan in recent years, a million or so remain to be resettled under a program the authorities see as key to keeping a lid on extremist violence. 　　People are generally anxious to get back, having lived in refugee camps or... More

　　At least 80 million children living in areas affected by war or natural disaster had their education disrupted last year, leaving them prey to child labor, trafficking and extremism, experts said on Thursday. 　　Many humanitarian aid appeals for 2015 ignored education, and aid appeals for education were only one-third funded.... More

　　A jabbing pain in his shoulder and thigh roused Obada from his sleep at 3am. In the half-light, the 15-year-old could make out eight masked men surrounding his bed, their rifles pointed at him. 　　"I felt terrified," he said of the experience of being arrested in February from his home... More

　　More than 60,000 people have been killed through torture or died in dire humanitarian conditions inside Syrian regime prisons throughout the country's five-year uprising, according to a monitor. 　　The numbers were obtained from Syrian regime sources, the United Kingdom-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. 　　"Since March 2011,... More

　　Australia is deliberately ignoring the inhumane treatment of refugees held on the South Pacific island of Nauru as a means of deterring others from attempting the journey to Australia, two rights groups have said. 　　Under Canberra's immigration policy, people intercepted while trying to reach the country by boat are sent... More

　　Umm Baha has become a regular participant in protests against reduced UNRWA services in the besieged Gaza Strip. 　　The 43-year-old Palestinian widow says she has no choice but to demonstrate against recent cuts to services offered by the United Nations refugee agency. "The diminished assistance that I receive is disproportionate,... More

　　Ninety-nine years since Balfour's "promise", Palestinians insist that their rights in Palestine cannot be dismissed. 　　By Ramzy Baroud 　　Ramzy Baroud is an internationally-syndicated columnist, a media consultant, an author. 　　When I was a child growing up in a Gaza refugee camp, I looked forward to November 2. On that day,... More