Ioane Teitiota
UN refugee agency highlights urgent climate challenge
The United Nations Refugee Agency has highlighted the recent UN ruling about Kiribati man Ioane Teitiota's climate change plight.
'I'll give climate refugee family a home'
East Timor's former president Jose-Ramos Horta is offering to give the Kiribati overstayer Ioane Teitiota a home and find him a job.
Climate refugees
There's dispute around the term "climate change refugee". But what needs to be done about people from places running out of resources? Audio
Reverend defends failed climate change refugee
The Auckland market gardener who sacked would-be climate change refugee Ioane Teitiota says he felt betrayed by the man he once supported and urged the government to deport him. Reverend Iosefa… Audio
More legal battles looming over Pacific refugees
The father of a family turned down for refugee status based on climate change, has today been deported from New Zealand. Audio
Ioane Teitiota is deported to Kiribati
The father of a family who failed to obtain refugee status based on climate change, has today been deported from New Zealand. Audio
Deportation blow for Kiribati community
Kiribati man Ioane Teitiota will be deported today after a last-minute bid to allow him to stay failed. Associate Immigration Minister Craig Foss announced he would not intervene in the deportation of… Audio
Kiribati community leader heads to parliament
The Kiribati community leader who is heading to Parliament today hopes his entreaties to allow the the family who argue they are climate change refugees to stay here will work. Audio
Kiribati community vows to fight refugee deportation
A Kiribati community leader in Auckland is heading to Parliament today to beg the government not to deport a family who argue they are climate change refugees. Audio
"Climate change refugee" on a flight out of NZ this week
The man at the centre of a deportation battle has been told he's booked on a flight out of New Zealand on Wednesday. Audio
Immigration Minister to review case of Kiribati family
The Associate Immigration Minister Craig Foss is considering a request to allow a Kiribati family stay in New Zealand on humanitarian grounds. Audio