Critics say such programmes turn humanitarian causes into business deals that dehumanise the plight of people trying to escape persecution or natural disasters.
Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu says 45,968 people, including 4,267 Syrian refugees in the country, have lost their lives in the February 6 quakes that devastated parts of Türkiye and neighbouring Syria.
Eleven days after the quake that killed more than 44,000 people in Türkiye and Syria, the situation in Syria's northwest remains dire due to slow arrival of aid to a region ravaged by years of conflict.
The UN's refugee agency chief has said Russia giving Ukrainian children Russian nationalities and having them adopted goes against the fundamental principles of child protection.
According to local media, some asylum seekers are being kidnapped by traffickers in the UK, where at least 200 children have gone missing over the last year and a half.
The UN refugee agency will provide Rohingya language translators and counselling to determine if they were from the group of 190 Rohingya who were reported to be drifting in a small boat in the Andaman Sea for a month.
The development came after repeated UN calls for rescuing the persecuted Rohingya seemed to have failed.
The Hollywood actress has conducted over 60 field missions with UNHCR over the past two decades.
The situation is particularly dire in Lebanon, where nine out of 10 Syrian refugees are already living in extreme poverty, the United Nations refugee agency warned.
The World Bank estimates that by 2050, if nothing is done to prevent it, there will be 216 million people internally displaced by the climate crisis with the Middle East being one of the most vulnerable regions.
Clashes between government forces and M23 rebels resumed last Thursday in the Rutshuru territory, sending at least 11,000 people to seek refuge in neighboring Uganda.
Athens repeatedly denies accusations by rights groups and United Nations refugee agency UNHCR that it pushes migrants out of Greek waters.
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