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Scalabrinian nun sister Rosita Milesi is awarded the Nansen Refugee Award by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for her work with refugees and internally displaced people in Brazil for over 40 years.
2024-10-9

The U.S. Departments of Justice and Commerce announce that the Trump administration will not implement a proposed citizenship question in the 2020 census, and will perform the census without the question. This follows the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting the administration's rationale for the question in the case "Department of Commerce v. New York".
2019-07-2

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) recommends that the Trump administration remove Kellyanne Conway from her office as senior aide to President Trump because of her repeated violations of the Hatch Act of 1939. The Trump administration rejects the OSC's recommendations, saying they "are deeply flawed and violate [Conway's] constitutional rights to free speech and due process."
2019-06-13

The U.S. Supreme Court allows, by a 5–4 vote, the Trump administration to begin implementing the policy that prohibits transgender persons who require or have undergone gender transition from serving. Unresolved challenges remain in lower courts.
2019-01-22

Amid controversy, the Trump Administration of the United States revokes the security clearance of former CIA chief John Brennan.
2018-08-16

The U.S. Supreme Court rules 5–4 in favor of the Trump administration's September 2017 travel ban.
2018-06-26

A refugee boat en route to Bangladesh from Myanmar capsizes, resulting in at least 12 deaths.
2017-10-8

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit refuses to reinstate Executive Order 13780 on the basis of religious discrimination, upholding the District Court for Maryland's March 7 ruling.
2017-05-25

United Nations refugee agency spokesperson Adrian Edwards warns that Europe is on the verge, "... of a largely self-induced humanitarian crisis, ..." if the rapid build-up of migrants continues at the northern borders of an already over-stretched Greece. There are at least 24,000 there now, including 8,500 at Idomeni, the site of yesterday's incident.
2016-03-1

Swedish Interior Minister Anders Ygeman tells financial newspaper "Dagens Industri" that Sweden is disallowing about 45 percent of asylum applications which means around 60,000-80,000 asylum-seekers could be deported in coming years.
2016-01-28