However, under the leadership of Robert Gardiner Hill and Edward Parker Charlesworth, who were instrumental in pioneering the ...

The former Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland was once the state’s most crowded psychiatric institution. Pulling off a ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

Health officials at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital evacuated patients after a phone call from someone who identified himself as ...

There’s something both fascinating and terrifying about standing in the shadow of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in ...

The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (later renamed the Weston State Hospital) stands as one of America’s most significant historic landmarks that most people have never heard of. Unless you’re a ...

In October 2024, four Karakalpak activists – Tleubike Yuldasheva, Ziuar Mirmanbetova, Raisa Khudaibergenova, and Zhangeldi Zhaksymbetov – received word that they had been granted asylum in the United ...

Following a spate of knife attacks and car rammings, there has been much predictable speculation about an intrinsic link ...

Atwater connected with scientists and medical professionals like Dr. Kidder and Dr. Wise through his asylum studies. Atwater’s work fascinated scholars globally, making many eager to see his ...

With the U.S. rebuffing would-be asylum seekers, shelters in Tijuana are no longer full. But some migrants now say they might ...

The organisation also advocates for asylum seekers to be allowed to work while their applications are being considered. "People seeking asylum are not allowed to work to support themselves or their ...

Migrants who overstay their visas will be removed from the UK, a minister has vowed after it was revealed they make up nearly 40% of all asylum claimants. The Home Office said about 40,000 people ...