Refugees

After years of silence, the International Cricket Council has announced a task force and monetary fund to help support the exiled Afghan women's team, with hopes the money will match the sum given to the men's team.

Pakistan has expelled more than 80,000 Afghan nationals since the end of March, a senior official said, as part of a renewed crackdown targeting foreigners the government deems to be residing 'illegally' in the country.

Officials in Donald Trump's administration could face criminal prosecution, a US judge says, because they have shown "wilful disregard" for a bar on deporting alleged gang members to El Salvador.

Afghans in the US and Pakistan are facing the prospect of being sent back to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan amid crackdowns on those who have sought protection in the countries.

Eleven-year-old Waslat and her family are among a growing number of Afghan refugees facing an uncertain future as a housing crisis grips Melbourne's outer south-east.

Some of the worst violence in years drives members of a minority sect linked to fallen Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to flee for their lives, and many worry the new government is not serious about punishing those responsible. 

Grandmother Mariya Samkova has made a new home in an Australian country town, but dreams of returning one day to Ukraine to see her relatives and friends.

A March 31 deadline could see more than a million Afghans forced out of Pakistan and back to a country already buckling under crisis.

A coalition of refugee and human rights groups writes to the leaders of Australia's largest political parties ahead of the federal election.

Donald Trump had invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a sweeping wartime authority that would have allowed him broader leeway to speed up mass deportations, on the basis that the US was being "invaded" by a Venezuelan gang.

The Australian government helped Papua New Guinea draft new arrangements for refugees in the Pacific country, despite saying it has no ongoing role in their management.

Afghans who fled after the Taliban takeover were all set for new lives in the United States until Donald Trump signed an executive order pausing the refugee program, leaving people with approved visas and booked flights dreading a return to Taliban rule.

The US usually provides almost half of the aid money spent on the humanitarian response to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

Cricket Australia "postponed" its 2021 Test match with Afghanistan over concerns about the Taliban's human rights abuses against women, and did not play in the subsequent 2023 or 2024 series, but says it will fulfil its ICC Champions Trophy tournament obligations.

Night-time temperatures in Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and are living in tents following more than a year of intense Israeli attacks, have dipped below 9 degrees Celsius over the past two weeks.

A perilous journey across continents, jungles and mountains does not always end in the American dream, but some Indian migrants are selling land and risking everything for a chance at life in the US.

Urgent applications to the High Court and the Federal Court halt the federal government's deportation to Nauru of three members of the NZYQ cohort of non-citizens identified for removal. 

As Germans prepare to head to the polls, refugees such as Zeeham and Eva are worried about the AfD's plan to remove them.

One of the trio of men awaiting deportation to Nauru has avoided the need to urgently challenge his removal, with the Immigration minister promising he would not be removed from Australia while the case continues.

"The ruthless and chaotic way this callous decision is being implemented threatens the lives and dignity of millions," Caritas Internationalis said in a statement.