Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Refugee

‘We are tired of living like prisoners’: LGBT+ asylum seekers stranded in Niger

After being stranded in Niger for almost two years, a group of LGBT+ asylum seekers in Niamey is growing ever more desperate in their hopes for resettlement. While navigating a country marked by intolerance towards LGBT people, they feel propelled to take more active action and demand the United Nations…

France 24

Tajikistan ‘rounding up and deporting Afghan refugees’

UN refugee agency urges authorities to end forced deportations as families say they are too scared to leave their homes

The Guardian - UK

UK has ‘assurances’ that Rwanda will honour asylum seeker deal, High Court told

Rwandan authorities have given ‘detailed assurances’ over the processing of asylum claims, Home Office lawyers argued.

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Black refugee facing homelessness after being dismissed from award-winning charity

Exclusive: Mum-of-three Rohie John was sacked when managers wrongly told her she had no right to work in Britain

The Independent UK

Israel PM Opposes Prosecuting Soldier who Likely Shot Abu Akleh

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Wednesday pushed back against suggestions of prosecuting a soldier who likely shot dead Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during an army operation this year. The veteran Al Jazeera reporter was wearing a bulletproof vest marked "Press" and a helmet when she was shot in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Sending asylum seekers to Rwanda not a penalty, High Court told

The UN Refugee Agency has previously told judges that the Government’s Rwanda plan is ‘incompatible with UK’s fundamental obligations’.

The Independent UK

A Syrian academic at the Fringe: why I put on a show to reclaim the stories of refugees like me

This summer I performed my own one-woman show at the 75th Edinburgh Fringe – a sentence I never thought I would write in my 17 years of living in the UK. But there I was, a Syrian academic on stage in Edinburgh in front of a microphone, high on adrenaline,…

The Conversation

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Israeli forces kill Palestinian in latest occupied West Bank raid

Younis Ghassan Tayeh, 20, was killed by the Israeli army during a raid on the al-Faraa refugee camp near Tubas.

Al Jazeera

Tents for Torture, Secret Detention Uncovered in Syria’s al-Hol Camp

The Kurdish Internal Security Forces (Asayish) and the special female units of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have found a tent used by ISIS-linked elements for torture and detention inside al-Hol refugee camp, east of al-Hasakah governorate. Security forces liberated four women who were chained up to a concrete wall.…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Video of child refugee in Libya sheds light on rampant abuse

A video has emerged on social media of a 15-year-old Sudanese refugee boy being tormented by gunmen in Libya demanding ransom

The Independent UK

‘I will reach Europe or die’: three stories of Afghan refugees in Turkey

Having paid smugglers to organise a dangerous escape, those fleeing the Taliban face persistent hostility

The Guardian - UK

How the politics of love could revolutionise New Zealand’s refugee policy

We like to think we help those in need, but the truth is we could and should be doing much more for the world’s displaced people

The Guardian - AU

Refugee resettlement program offers hope of easing Australia's crippling labour shortage

Essam Mahmoud arrived in Australia a fortnight ago, and already businesses are clamouring to hire him due to a refugee resettlement program.

ABC News

Rwanda policy ‘incompatible with UK obligations’ UN refugee agency tells court

The first legal challenge over the policy is due to finish on Friday.

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Rwanda ‘not a safe third country’ for asylum seekers and UK deal must be stopped, UN tells court

UN Refugee Agency says policy amounts to the ‘unlawful penalisation’ of refugees who use small boats

Asharq Al-Awsat

Human Rights Groups Condemn Torture in Lebanese Prisons

International human rights groups Tuesday condemned acts of torture in Lebanese prisons following the death of a Syrian refugee in detention and urged authorities to transfer the investigation into his death from a military to a civil court. Photos surfaced last week of the battered body of a Syrian who…

ABC News

Israeli army says there is a high probability one of its soldiers killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

Well-known Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was reporting on an Israeli raid in a refugee camp in the town of Jenin when she was killed by a bullet that struck her in the head.

The Conversation

How migrants who move between Zimbabwe and South Africa access healthcare in border towns

Zimbabwe and South Africa share a 225 km common border. There is only one official border crossing, at Beitbridge. An estimated 15,000 migrants and refugees from Zimbabwe and other countries cross daily either through the official border post or at illegal crossing points. Migrants’ access to healthcare, particularly in the…

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Bristol Post

Anti-Londoner graffiti and stickers appear in Easton and Bedminster

The stickers say refugees are welcome here, but not people moving from the capital

AAP

Minister vows to work on protection visas

Refugee advocates have rallied in Canberra to call on the Labor government to abide by its promise to abolish temporary protection visas.

The Independent UK

Rwanda is ‘authoritarian state’, High Court told as challenge over policy begins

The court is hearing a legal challenge brought by asylum seekers and a number of groups over five days.

The Independent UK

UNHCR rushes aid to Pakistan amid raging floods in south

Officials say four planes carrying aid for Pakistani flood victims from the UN refugee are arriving in this impoverished Islamic nation

Bangkok Post

Powerful agents of change

Children and youth who are stateless, migrants or urban refugees are often unseen and unheard. But with access to support and tools for empowerment, they can develop their potential to advocate for their rights within their homes, schools and communities -- no matter their legal status, citizenship or country of…

The Independent UK

Refugees ‘losing hope for future’ due to barriers to higher education in UK

Refugee Education UK says students being faced with language barriers

The Guardian - UK

Refugees minister who refused to endorse Rwanda policy quits

Richard Harrington declares his job ‘essentially complete’ day before Liz Truss expected to be named new PM

1 … 165 166 167 168

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Palestinian Authority

Doctors Without Borders

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.