Refugees And Migrants

Greece has begun evacuating thousands of stranded refugees from the makeshift Idomeni camp on its northern border with Macedonia.

A NZer held at an Australian immigration detention centre will find out today if his leg has to be amputated, and blames substandard medical care at the lock-up.

A humanitarian summit in Turkey will look at the changes needed as the world faces its worst conflicts since WWII, say New Zealand aid agencies.

Europe faces a "populist uprising" if it is unable to show people it can control the migrant crisis, former MI6 head Sir Richard Dearlove has said.

Turning away refugees "won't work" and a global response to the crisis is needed, the UN high commissioner for refugees says.

Some migrant and former refugee Africans in New Zealand say they are tired of being painted in the media as symbols of perversion, poverty, crime and shame. The 'I AM' project aims to turn this…

Head of the International Rescue Committee David Miliband is calling for an end to the refugee camp system.

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann has resigned after losing the support of Social Democratic party colleagues.

United Nations Refugee Agency has called for the immediate transfer of refugees and asylum seekers out of the Australian-run detention camps on both Manus Island and Nauru.

Seventeen of Australia's detention centres are to be closed, according to media reports.