A Taliban plan to return millions of internally displaced Afghans to their home villages and provinces could worsen the country’s humanitarian crisis, aid organisations say. The Taliban’s Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation announced the plan recently, saying that in phase,…

Spain is set to legalise up to 300,000 undocumented migrants each year for the next three years in a bid to support its economy and tackle an aging population. The initiative aims to expand the country’s workforce and allow foreigners…

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine reaches the thousand-day mark, a new report has revealed the scale of the humanitarian crisis the conflict has wrought. The report from the UN’s migration agency IOM says that more than 14.6 million people…

When the Ahmad-Zada family were deported from Pakistan to Afghanistan earlier this year as undocumented Afghan refugees, they feared the worst. Maryam Ahmad-Zada and her husband Habibullah had fled the Taliban takeover of their homeland and found refuge in Pakistan…

The number of forcibly displaced people across the globe has reached 123 million with ongoing conflicts in Lebanon, Sudan and elsewhere driving rising displacement, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR. The displacement figure is the highest in history and…

Israel’s move to effectively end the work of the UN relief agency UNRWA in Gaza will have dire humanitarian consequences, the UN’s children’s agency has warned. “Israeli legislation to shut down the main lifeline for Palestinian refugees in Gaza will…

The countries hosting the most refugees on a per capita basis will come as a surprise to many as they are among the smallest nations in the world. On the tiny Caribbean nation of Aruba, 16 per cent of the…

The UN’s migration agency IOM has called for migration to be included among suite of solutions to climate change. Speaking at the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP29), the International Organisation for Migration Director Amy Pope called…

More than half of migrant women have been sexually harassed at work, according to a new survey. The national survey of more than 3,000 migrant women, carried out by Unions NSW, found 51 per cent had experienced workplace sexual harassment.…

Migration to wealthy countries reached a record level for the second year running in 2023 with 6.5 million permanent migrants settling in the 38 richest countries, according to a report by the OECD. The report said the figures reflected a…

A ‘Refugees for Climate Change Action’ group has been launched by the United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR in a bid to mobilise the world’s displaced people in the fight against global warming. Star of the TV series Sanditon and UNHCR…

Northern Gaza is likely to experience famine in coming weeks because of Israel’s siege, according to a new analysis by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS). “The severity of acute food insecurity in Gaza has sharply worsened since early…