For refugees and asylum seekers, finding safety and building a new life in the UK brings huge challenges. Having fled war, persecution, or disaster, refugees often have to leave behind their whole lives to start over.

The UK Parliament recently passed the Nationality and Borders Act. The new laws have changed the way refugees are treated and welcomed in the UK. Here’s what you need to know about the rules and how they will affect refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.

Netflix’s Transatlantic tells the story of how Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee helped thousands of refugees flee France during World War II. Read how the organisation became the International Rescue Committee and how we’ve continued to support people facing conflict and crisis for the past 90 years. 1933 Varian Fry at his office in Marseilles in the spring of 1941.

The Hussaini family are now rebuilding their lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The floods in Pakistan have killed over 1,100 people, including nearly 360 children and a third of the country is underwater.

Find out how we choose the countries for our crisis Watchlist and why we are calling for action to fix the “system failure” driving new and worsening crises around the world.