The so-called "Orderly Return Law" (Geordnete-Rückkehr-Gesetz), which was enacted in Germany a year ago has failed to achieve its objective of raising the number of deportations in the first six months of its existence.
The Turkish government says 370,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their home country from Turkish territory since 2016. They are now allegedly living in areas under Turkish control thanks to cross-border military operations that began in 2016.
As a growing number of Afghan refugees and migrants are returning to their county, finding housing for millions of Afghans is becoming one of the greatest challenges of the country, a senior government official told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has reiterated his demand that all Afghans obliged to leave the country shall be deported to Afghanistan. Right now, only criminal offenders and people who disguised their identity can be sent back to the country.
The Turkish government has said that since 2016 a reported 329,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their home country from Turkey after cross-border military operations carried out by Ankara.
Many Syrian refugees in Lebanon feel their situation is so dire that they are considering heading back to war-torn Syria. But it's a journey into the unknown, as Diana Hodali reports from Beirut.
The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR and Fondazione Milan have joined forces for the project ''Sport as therapy'' which will allow refugees evacuated from Libya to Niger to practice sport to help them overcome the traumatic experiences they have endured as migrants.
German authorities offered financial assistance to 437 Syrian refugees to return to their country voluntarily in 2018. That’s according to preliminary figures provided by Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, BAMF.
The International Organization for Migration facilitated the return of 418 migrants from Yemen with the first voluntary repatriation flight from the country in more than three years.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNCHR) said it has facilitated the voluntary return of more than 2,000 Somali refugees from Yemen, through a program called Assisted Spontaneous Returns (ASR) it started in 2017. Since the start of this year, 1,321 migrants from Somalians living in Yemen have returned home.
UNHCR has launched an appeal for the safe passage of civilians in southern Syria, where fighting continues and about 140,000 people have been displaced.
According to the UN migration agency, IOM, there are 3.5 million internally displaced persons or returnees in 15 provinces in Afghanistan, which is roughly 18 percent of the population.