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to pressure Rwandan refugees to go home.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports on the move to give asylum to female refugees who fear that they will be subject to sexual violence or female circumcision if they are forced to return home. The US has adopted guidelines allowing such asylums, but critics say they are not rigorously enforced.

the latest movement of Hutu refugees toward the Rwandan border.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Washington Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran, in Indonesia. Thousands of refugees are fleeing the island of Borneo amid skirmishes between soldiers and police.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Gaza reports Israeli troops and tanks stormed into Palestinian refugee camp early today. It was Israel's first military incursion into Palestinian-ruled territory since the violence began last September.

Part one of an investigation delving into the increasing pressure put on refugees seeking safety in the U.S. via its southern border. Also, inside a hospital where Latinos are fighting COVID-19.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Sarajevo that the NATO-led peace-keeping force is preparing for this coming Saturday's election. International organizations are worried that war refugees will run into problems when they try to return to their old homes to vote.

NPR's Michael Skoler reports from Rwanda on the exhumation of a mass grave site requested by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal. The site is in a town called Kibuye (kih-BOO-yay), not far from the refugee camps in Zaire.

Jennifer Griffin reports on the day of mourning in Lebanon. Even as services were being held, Israeli shells were falling near Cana, the site of last Thursday's shelling, where some 100 refugees were killed.

to try to agree on a formula to end the refugee crisis in eastern Zaire.