カテゴリー: Refugees
Opposition immigration spokesman in New Zealand claims Kurdish refugee was let into the country only because he had ‘political friends’ in government Jacinda Ardern has denounced as “offensive” a suggestion that Behrouz Boochani benefited from a politi…
Hundreds more refugees still stranded on boats after being turned away by Malaysia Rohingya refugees believed to have spent weeks stranded on cramped boats at sea have been sent to a remote, uninhabited island by Bangladesh, while hundreds more remain …
In move condemned by UN, refugees including Rohingya detained amid rise in xenophobia Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Malaysian authorities have rounded up and detained hundreds of undocumented migrants, including Rohingya …
Two boats still stranded at sea as Malaysia accused of using Covid-19 as an excuse to turn them backRohingya refugees whose relatives, including children, have been stranded for weeks on cramped boats have urged international governments to act before …
Malaysia and Thailand asked to urgently help people on as many as five boatsHundreds more Rohingya refugees remain stuck at sea, rights groups have warned, just one day after it emerged that dozens of people died onboard a boat that was refused entry t…
European treatment trial launched; German cases rise to more than 22,000; almost one in three Americans told to stay home; first confirmed case in SyriaUK coronavirus live updatesAustralia coronavirus live updatesCoronavirus: at a glanceWuhan eases loc…
Smugglers responsible for mass atrocities in Thailand may be linked to capsized boat carrying refugees from Bangladesh to MalaysiaActivists fear a dangerous transnational trafficking network is being revived after at least 16 Rohingya refugees drowned …
At least 15 dead and many missing after overloaded vessel allegedly trafficking refugees to Malaysia sankAn overcrowded boat carrying about 138 Rohingya refugees from Bangladeshi camps has sunk in the Bay of Bengal, leaving at least 15 confirmed dead a…
Devastated by his time in Germany, which he regards as still Nazi, the artist has moved. As he unveils a powerful virtual reality artwork, he talks about needing a monster to fight – and why he’d like to be a barber‘When we filmed this,” says Ai Weiwei…
Exclusive: Conditions inside Australia-funded Bomana centre prompted dozens to agree to return to country of originLeaked pictures from inside Papua New Guinea’s Bomana immigration detention centre have given a glimpse of where up to 20 asylum seekers …
Chiune Sugihara’s son tells how he learned of his father’s rescue mission in Lithuania, which commemorates his achievements this yearAs a child in Japan in the 1950s and 60s, Nobuki Sugihara never knew his father had saved thousands of lives. Few did. …
The Bangladeshi government is making life hard for young people trying to document levels of hardship in the world’s largest refugee settlementFor Azimul Hassan, 19, life before he entered the world’s largest refugee settlement was always busy.He would…
The moral case for the former Manus island detainee becoming a citizen is as simple as ‘asylum is a human right’I wonder if it winds up Peter Dutton to know that Behrouz Boochani, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist, award-winning author and former Manus Is…
New Zealand PM says she’s disappointed her immigration minister was aware of the arrival but had not passed information onJacinda Ardern said she did not know that former Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani was coming to New Zealand before his arriv…
New Zealand PM says she’s disappointed her immigration minister was aware of the arrival but had not passed information onJacinda Ardern said she did not know that former Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani was coming to New Zealand before his arriv…