Refugees

SAN DIEGO – One by one, asylum-seekers from El Salvador and Honduras who are waiting in Mexico for court hearings in the United States appeared before Judge Lee O’Connor to explain why, after months of effort, they couldn’t find an…

12.28am GMT00:28 Here is the latest from the US now (thanks to our colleagues at the helm of the US live blog, which has now closed): The number of Covid-19 cases in the US has now gone past 33,000, with 417 deaths. New York…

By Refugee Concern Network Since the beginning of the year, Hong Kong has been scrambling to cope with the Covid-19 outbreak. Facemasks, hand sanitisers, bleach, toilet paper, social distancing, home working, distant learning… the list…

An immigration guard working at a Brisbane hotel being used as a makeshift detention centre has tested positive for coronavirus, prompting fears the confined refugee population could be vulnerable to an outbreak. The hotel, at Kangaroo…

Refugees who have been moved from Manus Island to the Papua New Guinean capital of Port Moresby say they have endured two violent attacks in less than a month from local residents. Two refugees have told Guardian Australia that in both…

Home affairs tried to suppress the release of Serco’s immigration detention centre operating manual by arguing it would allow immigration detainees to make human rights complaints as a “means of intimidating Serco personnel”. The…

Cate Blanchett’s new show Stateless offers a compelling insight into a long-running and divisive issue in Australia. Set in 2004, the series follows four characters who find themselves entangled in Australia’s immigration detention…

KASTANIES, GREECE – Syria’s official news agency said two of its warplanes were shot down by Turkish forces inside northwest Syria, amid a military escalation there that’s led to growing direct clashes between Turkish and Syrian…

ANKARA – Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country’s borders with Europe were open Saturday, making good on a long-standing threat to let refugees into the continent as thousands of migrants gathered at the frontier…

TOKOROZAWA, SAITAMA PREF. – Nobody chooses to become a refugee: This is what Yonas Kinde, a 39-year-old from Ethiopia, wants people in Japan to realize when they see him competing in the Tokyo Marathon on Sunday in his bid to…

BEIRUT – Turkey-backed Syrian opposition fighters retook a strategic northwestern town from government forces on Thursday, opposition activists said, cutting a key highway just days after the government reopened it for the first…

The ABC’s gripping six-part series Stateless begins in the middle of nowhere, a combination of drone and ground shots capturing a hysterical woman running across sun-scorched desert in desperate search of, or escape from ... what? It’s…

ATHENS – Police in riot gear threw teargas and fired water cannon at Greek islanders as they tried to prevent access to construction sites for new migrant detention centres by setting fires, hurling flares and blockading the…

ANKARA – Airstrikes on rebel-controlled northwestern Syrian killed at least 16 people Tuesday, including two students and two teachers, opposition activists said, as government forces closed in on a town considered a symbol of the…

ANKARA/AMMAN – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday a military operation by his forces to push back a Syrian government offensive against rebels in northwest Syria was now “a matter of time” after talks with…

As an Australian working abroad, Cate Blanchett never found it easy talking about her home government – in particular, the trauma it has inflicted on asylum seekers in need. “They knew nothing about the Tamils on the roof, nothing about…

A three-year-old Australian girl held in al-Hawl camp in Syria will likely lose her fingers to frostbite, unable to be properly treated during a brutal winter in the squalid camp. Amirah is one of 47 Australian children being detained…

CAIRO – The U.N. refugee agency reported Friday that the total number of migrants intercepted by the Libyan coast guard in the past month rose 121 percent from the same period last year.The UNHCR said in January alone, it…

ANKARA – Turkey’s president said Tuesday his country won’t allow Syrian forces to gain additional territory in a northern Syrian province, Turkish media reported, a day after clashes between Turkish and Syrian forces killed…

ATHENS – Hundreds of migrants rallied for a second day on the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday to demand faster processing of asylum requests, while local residents staged a separate protest calling for the camps to close.The…