Refugees

Sometimes, the medical profession and governments are on the same page. Examples are public health initiatives like immunisation programs or bowel cancer and cervical screening programs, when medical expertise informs policy. This week…

Jacinda Ardern has sent a public message to Scott Morrison, confirming New Zealand’s longstanding offer to resettle asylum seekers in offshore detention remains open. The day after the Senate repealed the medevac legislation, after the…

ROME – Italy has increased relocation of migrants around Europe, official figures showed on Wednesday, reducing frictions around the issue and enabling far-right leader Matteo Salvini to steer his focus more onto the…

Fallout from medevac repeal continues as Angus Taylor controversies roll on. All the day’s political news, live 11.27pm GMT The prime minister has just called a press conference for 10.30am. Stick with us. 11.26pm GMT On the Murray…

The Senate has passed a motion calling on the government to recognise the increased risk it has placed on two gay Saudi journalists by keeping them in detention after they claimed asylum last month. Guardian Australia can reveal that…

The medevac law will be repealed after a “secret deal” was struck between the government and key crossbencher, Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie. The medical evacuation law, which was passed against the government’s will in the last…

BIHAC, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA – Despite calls for their relocation before winter, hundreds of migrants have remained stuck in a makeshift tent camp in northwestern Bosnia as a spate of snowy and cold weather has hit the region.Their…

BOGOTA – Daniels Herrera kept quiet on his long walk home from work following violent protests in the Colombian capital Bogota last week, fearful his Venezuelan accent would give him away.The 26-year-old had arrived in the…

PHOENIX – International flags flutter from the ceilings of the outdoor hallways at Valencia Newcomer School, where more than 200 children from around the world are learning English skills and American classroom customs they need to…

ATHENS – The U.N. refugee agency said Thursday it was encouraging migrants to leave a severely overcrowded Tripoli center, but rejected as “offensive” a British daily report alleging it was “starving” asylum-seekers to force them…

LJUBLJANA – Two Syrians, being smuggled in the trunk of a car, died in a crash Thursday, Slovenian police said, as the number of those sneaking into the EU member country have increased.The accident happened shortly after midnight…

A 26-year-old Kurdish man sued the government Tuesday, claiming he was left untreated for cancer while in a detention center northeast of Tokyo.The man is seeking about ¥8 million in damages in a lawsuit, in which he claims the…

Margaret Atwood has once said that men’s greatest fear is being laughed at, while women’s greatest fear is being killed. Many women are familiar with this saying, but interestingly, most men I asked professed to have never heard it…

Something happened in 2017. Australia is second only to Canada in welcoming immigration on a large scale. Our faith in the benefits of accepting newcomers of all faiths and races is rock solid. But a couple of years ago we began to grow…

Wilson Security has settled out of court with a refugee who alleges she was raped while being held in detention on Nauru. The company was contracted by the Australian government to manage and operate security at the Manus Island and…

Dozens of medical transfers of refugees and asylum seekers continue to be held up by the Nauruan government’s laborious and controversial domestic approval system as the Australian government schedules a vote to repeal the medevac laws.…

ON, BOARD THE OPEN ARMS OFF SICILY – Italian authorities have evacuated 11 migrants from the Open Arms ship but not granted port access to the vessel, leaving it stranded in rough seas with 62 African migrants still on board, a…

ROME – Rescue authorities found the bodies of seven migrants, including five women, after their boat capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa, coast guard officials said Sunday.A patrol boat recovered the bodies of three of the…

Izmir, Turkey, Nov. 23 (CNA) An international architectural design competition partially funded by the Taiwan government has awarded professional architects and students for their proposals for shelters and intercultural service…

PENANG, MALAYSIA – Before he flew to Thailand on a fake Bangladeshi passport and then crossed into Malaysia, Mohammed Imran was one of the most influential Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. He headed an 18,000-strong camp and…