Refugees
- Africa, Bangladesh, Human rights, International court of justice, Law, Myanmar, Refugees, South and Central Asia, The Gambia, United Nations, World news
‘Big step forward’: Myanmar military faces Rohingya genocide case at UN court
Survivors of violence hope proceedings will bring justice a step closer and set a precedent for future genocid…
- Afghanistan, Photography, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Taliban, United Nations, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Afghan women in the UK: amplifying their voice – a photo essay
Over four years have passed since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Claudia Janke’s photographic s…
- Chagos Islands, Immigration and asylum, Law, Migration, Politics, Refugees, South and Central Asia, UK news
Court backs ruling that UK unlawfully detained Tamils on Diego Garcia
British Indian Ocean Territory commissioner’s appeal against decision last year rejected by judges in LondonAp…
- Asia Pacific, Bangladesh, Global development, Human rights, Human trafficking, Law, Malaysia, Migration, Migration and development, Myanmar, Refugees, Rohingya, South and Central Asia, World news
‘A generation lost at sea’: the desperate Rohingya falling prey to traffickers as they flee Bangladesh
Barred from work and school in Bangladesh, thousands of refugees are making the perilous voyage to Malaysia by…
- Aid, Bangladesh, Global development, Humanitarian response, Myanmar, Refugees, Rohingya, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
No soap, no tents, no food: Rohingya families fight for survival as aid plummets
In Bangladesh, over a million people in the world’s largest refugee camp depend on aid – and cuts mean new arr…
- Myanmar, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Trump administration, US immigration, US news, US politics, World news
Junta hails end to US protected status for Myanmar nationals
Human rights monitors say it is not safe to return, citing reports of ‘serious crimes in the run-up to electio…
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, Australian immigration and asylum, Australian politics, Human rights, Migration, Nauru, Pacific islands, Refugees
Nauru president floats returning NZYQ refugees to home countries
In newly translated excerpts of a February interview, David Adeang wrongly stated the people Australia has beg…
- Bhutan, ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Idaho, Migration, Refugees, South and Central Asia, US immigration, US news, World news
A refugee’s deportation rattles a deeply conservative town: ‘What Trump has done is not Christlike’
Binod Shah, a refugee from Bhutan, went to church, got married and started an auto shop in Twin Falls, Idaho. …
- Asia Pacific, Global development, Myanmar, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Thailand, United Nations, USAid, World news
Thailand to let Myanmar refugees work to counter aid cuts and labour shortages
The move, welcomed by UN, will allow thousands of people living in camps to support themselves and their famil…
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Iran has taken care of millions of Afghan refugees with little international support | Letters
Ayoub Heidari of the Iranian embassy contests the claim that hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees may be r…
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Iran may release hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees into Iraq and Turkey
Tehran considers move as part of multi-pronged offensive after bombing of nuclear sites and restoration of san…
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, Australian immigration and asylum, Australian politics, Migration, Nauru, Pacific islands, Refugees
Asylum seekers on Nauru going hungry despite government spending $1.5m a year for each person
The Australian government is spending millions of dollars a year to house asylum seekers, yet many say they ca…
- Bhutan, Pennsylvania, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Trump administration, US immigration, US news, US politics
A US haven for refugees was divided over Trump – now immigration crackdown has left a ‘community breaking’
Pennsylvania hosts one of the largest clusters of Bhutanese refugees in the US. Families are unsettled as Trum…
- Afghanistan, Africa, Boko Haram, Children, Conflict and arms, Europe, Forced marriage, Global development, Global education, Israel, Lebanon, Mali, Middle East and North Africa, Niger, Nigeria, Refugees, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Ukraine, World news
Airstrikes, banditry, drones and a ban on girls’ education: four teachers on educating students amid conflict
Educators working in extremely challenging conditions in Lebanon, Niger, Ukraine and Afghanistan explain what …
- Afghanistan, Gender, Global development, Iran, Middle East and North Africa, Migration and development, Refugees, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women under the Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Jobless, homeless and helpless without a man: Afghan women expelled by Iran into hands of the Taliban
Those who fled Afghanistan fearing gender apartheid have been forced back to live in a society in which, witho…