Refugees

The Papua New Guinea prime minister, Peter O’Neill, has requested a full briefing on the Paladin affair and said he would “welcome any investigation by Australian authorities”. O’Neill, speaking to local media overnight, said PNG had…

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA - Seven children, all members of a Syrian family who arrived in Canada about two years ago, died in an early morning fire Tuesday that witnesses said quickly engulfed a home in a Halifax suburb.A woman who…

DEIR EZZOR, SYRIA - Several Islamic State group jihadists and dozens of civilians, including foreigners, quit the last IS-held pocket in eastern Syria on Tuesday, U.S.-backed forces said.IS, which in 2014 declared a cross-border…

Sick people from Manus Island and Nauru will be sent to Christmas Island, not the mainland, under new medevac laws, the head of the home affairs department has revealed. The Nauru government has also passed laws banning medical…

An individual border force officer forgetting to send an email likely led to the refugee Hakeem al-Araibi spending almost three months in a Thai prison fighting off Bahraini attempts to have him extradited. The head of the Australian…

SAN FRANCISCO - The Trump administration’s policy of returning asylum-seekers to Mexico while their cases wind through immigration courts violates U.S. law by putting the migrants in danger and depriving them of the ability to…

NEAR BAGHOUZ, SYRIA - Jihadi fighters made a desperate last stand in eastern Syria on Wednesday, while their wives and children fled the final, blood-soaked implosion of the Islamic State group’s “caliphate.”The U.S.-backed Syrian…

For the editors of the West Australian, the government’s defeat over the medical evacuations bill was nothing short of catastrophic. The historic vote was illustrated on the front page of the Kerry Stokes-owned paper with a cartoon…

On 7 December, 10 days after the Australian refugee footballer Hakeem al-Araibi was arrested at Bangkok airport, the former Socceroos captain Craig Foster sent a letter to the president and secretary general of Fifa reminding them that…

Sahar* does not have the energy for optimism. The Iranian refugee is one of a large number of refugees and asylum seekers in immigration detention on Nauru who would be eligible for medical transfer to Australia if legislation that…

CANBERRA - Australia’s conservative minority government suffered a monumental political defeat Tuesday, becoming the first administration in nearly a century to lose a vote on major legislation and fueling calls for a snap…

PACELLI, COLOMBIA - They were once manual laborers, taxi drivers, fishermen and merchants. But Venezuelan migrants fleeing poverty and shortages of basic necessities have been forced into new work: picking coca leaves for…

As Hakeem al-Araibi settles back into his life in Melbourne after 76 days in a Thai prison, supporters and campaigners for his release will turn their sights to those who could have, and should have, done more. Myriad intersecting…

WASHINGTON - Congressional negotiators reached agreement Monday night to prevent a government shutdown and finance construction of new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, overcoming a late-stage hang-up over immigration…

Hakeem al-Araibi’s family has thanked the international community for securing his release from potential extradition to Bahrain, a country he fled after he was imprisoned and tortured. In a statement provided to Guardian Australia,…

The release of Hakeem al-Araibi is a win for humanity, for the power of citizens of the world demanding that human rights be protected, a step forward for Thailand, a challenge for Australia and the beginning of a broader fight for the…

BEIJING - The U.S. Embassy in Beijing says it is following the case of a Chinese-born Kazakh man who had been fighting attempts by Beijing to return him to China from neighboring Uzbekistan and whose current whereabouts are…

Ministers have repeated claims that all 1,000 or so refugees in offshore detention would receive medical transfer under the Kerryn Phelps bill – but failed to explain if that meant they are all sick. The government is strenuously…

Asylum seekers and refugees are waiting as long as five years for specialist medical treatment even when it has been formally recommended by the Australian government’s contracted doctors, new data has revealed. Support workers and…

Independent Kerryn Phelps has urged Labor and fellow parliamentarians not to “cave in” to Scott Morrison’s “scare tactics and deliberate misinformation” on the crossbench medical transfers bill, ahead of the resumption of parliament…