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

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

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

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

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

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…

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.

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…

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

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

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