カテゴリー: Refugees
Nine years after it was first made, Australia has finally taken up New Zealand’s offer to accept refugees held in Nauru and other facilitiesThe Australian and New Zealand governments have announced that 450 refugees from Australia’s regional processing…
The response to Ukraine is laudable. But as a British Afghan, I’m a little jealous | Nelufar Hedayat
Seven months since Kabul’s fall, my family are still pleading for help. Has the world forgotten this ongoing humanitarian crisis?The world’s attention is focused on the conflict in Ukraine. But, as someone born in Afghanistan, the catastrophic events s…
Unlike other western nations, NZ has so far refused to change its visa rules in response to the crisisA group of “desperate” New Zealanders with Ukrainian friends and family have called on the government in Wellington to allow visa-free travel for peop…
On the borders of Turkey, a six-metre high wall in the snow is holding back a tide of people desperate to find a haven from tyrannyThe province of Van, in the east of Turkey, is a place of unbelievable beauty, where snow-covered mountains sweep out of …
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and beyond are using poetry to come to terms with atrocities – and as a form of resistanceIt has now been a year since the military coup, and the breeze of democracy has become a dead wind in Myanmar. People breathe the …
Nancy Yu, AKA Asia One is drawing on the hip-hop movement’s activist roots to help a group of artists and their families escape the TalibanA veteran of the hip-hop scene and internationally celebrated breakdancer, Nancy Yu – AKA Asia One – has her fair…
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Minister admits there is no way to move some refugees on without losing government support‘Doesn’t seem possible’: Londoner who wants to house Afghan refugeesThousands of Afghans rescued from the Taliban remain stuck in UK hotels, after a minister admi…
Under former Tory MP Rory Stewart’s plans, countries would take in an agreed number of refugees annuallyLiberal democracies can regain their lost sense of shared moral purpose by agreeing to set a long-term internationally agreed target for the number …
Immigration minister previously announced places for Afghan nationals within existing visa program in move critics call ‘mean and tricky’Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe immigration minister, Alex Hawke, has been urged to heed A…
The river town of Mongla is leading the way in a project to resettle people in a region decimated by extreme weatherBy the time the rising sun breaks through the morning mist over the Mongla River, the rhythmic chug of motors strapped to wooden canoes …
Nearly 700,000 people have been forced from their homes in Afghanistan since the beginning of 2021, joining 2.9 million Afghans already internally displaced across the country at the end of 2020. The withdrawal of foreign aid after the Taliban took ove…
People who fled Taliban are starting to arrive in northern France in hope of reaching UKAfghans who fled the Taliban risk dying in freezing temperatures in Calais, NGOs have warned.People who left Afghanistan after the US withdrawal this summer have st…
About 1,200 shelters destroyed by blaze in Bangladesh camp housing nearly 1m people who fled military crackdown in MyanmarA fire tore through a Rohingya refugee camp in south-east Bangladesh on Sunday, destroying hundreds of shelters and forcing refuge…