Update December 21, 2018, 10:30 am: In what seems to be a Christmas nightmare, two Venezuelan women who were allegedly abducted and held in a house in Rio Claro have now had their valid UNHCR ...
President Paula-Mae Weekes says Trinidad and Tobago has an obligation to refugees and citizens should be compassionate toward persons who have fled their home countries in search of a better life. ...
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi has refuted statements by international human rights agency Amnesty International on Trinidad and Tobago’s legal obligations to the 1951 Refugee Convention. In a medi...
Human rights body, Amnesty International, is calling on Trinidad and Tobago to stop criminalizing the peaceful protest of migrants and refugees but rather, find human rights-based solutions for t...
Attorney Emir Crowne disputed statements made by Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi who said in recent media reports there are no refugee laws in Trinidad and Tobago. Speaking to LoopTT, Crowne said co...
Government said it has formed an inter-ministerial team to address the issue of Venezuelan migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Trinidad and Tobago, after reports that Venezuelans in Trinidad and ...
A federal judge barred the Trump administration from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the southern border illegally. President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Nov. 9 that said anyone w...
Trinidad and Tobago’s ‘unwelcoming’ treatment of refugees is being highlighted by international media, most recently an article by the Miami Herald. The article, written by journalists Marta Oliver...
National Security Minister Stuart Young said he will be engaging the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on how to treat with asylum seekers. This, after 78 Cubans seeking asylum were arrested and charge...
Authorities in Colombia moved homeless Venezuelan migrants to a football field on Tuesday filled with tents and cots modelled after a refugee settlement for Syrian arrivals in France, as the number fl...