Lawyers

• Second Legal Method Against The Trump Travel Ban

  Newer methods are on the rise to challenge Trump administration's second travel ban, that restricts the entry of Muslim travelers and refugees into the United States.

• Cate Blanchett Appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for UN Refugee Agency

  Cate Blanchett was appointed as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N.’s agency for refugees. In her new role, she will help raise awareness about the worldwide refugee crisis.

• Danes slammed with smuggling charges after giving migrants a lift to Sweden

  Denmark's humanitarian credentials are once again being questioned as it is pressing smuggling charges for the people who gave migrants a ride to its neighboring country, Sweden. The former country has already been under fire for ordering the police to seize jewelry from asylum-seekers.

• David Cameron called out by actors, writers to increase help for refugee children

  U.K.'s Prime Minister is being called out by actors and writers to increase efforts to ensure that refugee children are being taken care of.

• Jailed Salvadoran seeks asylum in the U.S.

  A Salvadoran woman who is now in jail in the state of Missouri request the halting of her deportation to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

• Refugee Man in Australian Spend AU$20,000 on Legal battle Over Injustice claims on a AU$250 speeding ticket

  Mustafa Al Shakarji is an Iraqi refugee man who moved to Australian claiming he was wrongly handed a AU$250 speeding ticket. He is fighting over the injustice on the incident to a legal battle.

• Germany's capacity to take in refugees is limited, Schaeuble says

  Germany needs to send a message to the world that it's reaching the limit of its capacity to help Europe's flood of migrants, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Sunday, as he advocated restricting family reunions for Syrian refugees.

• Merkel's deputy expects Germany to get over a million refugees in 2015

  More than a million refugees will come to Germany this year, Chancellor Angela Merkel's deputy said on Sunday, as a poll showed almost half of Germans believe she is handling the influx of asylum seekers badly.

• German authorities accused of playing down refugee shelter sex crime reports

  Germany's police union and women's rights groups accused the authorities on Tuesday of playing down reports of harassment, sexual assault and even rape at refugee shelters because they feared a backlash against asylum seekers.

• In heated U.S. debate, immigrants get boost of pope power

  In his first public words on his first trip to the United States, Pope Francis on Wednesday put himself in the shoes of millions of foreigners.

• Japan sets out extra curbs on asylum seekers

  Japan announced on Tuesday changes to its refugee system that activists said will make the country, which accepted less than a dozen asylum seekers last year, increasingly hard to reach for people in need of protection.

• Europe's answer to refugee crisis should not be nationalistic: Moscovici

  Europe should not respond to the inflow of immigrants from the Middle East and Africa with nationalism, because caring about human rights is part of the European identity, Europe's Economic Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said on Friday.

• Hungary says to bus migrants to Austrian border

  Hungary said on Friday it would send thousands of migrants by bus to the border with Austria, appearing to capitulate to crowds who broke away from riot police and struck out on foot for western Europe in a day of chaos.

• Mediterranean refugee and migrant numbers pass 300,000 in 2015

  The number of refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean to reach Europe has passed 300,000 this year, up from 219,000 in the whole of 2014, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday.

• Aid agencies say funding gap endangers Syrian refugees

  United Nations aid agencies said on Thursday that a $4.5 billion appeal to tackle the Syrian refugee crisis in 2015 was less than a quarter funded, putting millions of vulnerable people at risk, and had already led to cuts in vital assistance.

• Migrants race through Italy to dodge EU asylum rules

  Last month, Dejen Asefaw was rescued with hundreds of other migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and brought to Sicily. The 24-year-old graduate from Eritrea, who endured forced military service and prison at home, hopes to be granted asylum in Europe.

• Syrians largest refugee group after Palestinians: U.N.

  Syrians have overtaken Afghans as the largest refugee population aside from Palestinians, fleeing to more than 100 countries to escape war in their homeland, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

• U.S. seeks to ease influx of Central American child migrants

  Washington will allow some children in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to apply for refugee status from their home countries, Vice President Joe Biden announced on Friday, in a bid to stem an exodus of undocumented migrants to the U.S. border through Mexico.

• Lebanon blocks Syrian refugees from entering: United Nations

  The Lebanese government has cut back sharply on the number of Syrian refugees it is allowing into the country, the United Nations representative in Lebanon said on Saturday.

• Ex-bodyguard jailed for trying to kill Rwandan President Kagame

  A former bodyguard of Rwanda's Paul Kagame was sentenced to life on Friday for plotting to kill the president, but he complained that he had been kidnapped and said he would appeal.