Refugees And Migrants

A backdown from the Australian government that will see hundreds of refugees allowed to resettle here.

New Zealand will take 150 a year for three years under a deal that's been nine years in the… Audio

The ACT party is calling for a referendum on co-governance.

It says the country is abandoning liberal democracy and replacing it with an "ethno state" where there are two types of people: Tangata… Audio

Amnesty International is a longtime critic of Australia's treatment of refugees.

It has described the treatment of asylum seekers in detention centres as abbhorrent and amounting to torture.

New… Audio

An extraordinary backdown by the Australian Government will see hundreds of refugees loosed from limbo and allowed to resettle in New Zealand.

But the near-decade delay means the breakthrough brings… Audio

In a major u-turn, Australia has accepted a longstanding offer from New Zealand to take refugees from detention centres in the Pacific.

As a result, this country will take 150 refugees a year for… Audio

Amnesty International NZ's executive director Meg De Ronde told Checkpoint it's a huge relief to have the deal for 450 refugees to come here from detention in Australia and offshore centres.

"Amnesty… Video, Audio

New Zealand's helping bail Australia out of a long running controversy over asylum seekers locked up in offshore detention centres.

In 2013 it introduced a policy preventing anyone arriving by boat… Video, Audio

About 4000 Ukrainians could be offered safe haven in NZ under a special sponsorship scheme that would allow them to live here for two years.

From today so-called sponsors can apply to bring their… Video, Audio

Kathryn speaks with Ukrainian journalist, now refugee in Poland Sofia Koczmar-Tymoshenko. She is one of an estimated two million refugees who have fled the Russian invasion, mostly to Poland, Hungary… Audio

Ukrainians in NZ are appealing for the government to grant war refugees and family members immediate safe haven in NZ.

The government today announced an automatic 12 month visa extension for… Video, Audio

Comedian Pax Assadi doesn't shy away from the realities of immigrant family life in his new comedy series. Raised by Refugees is based on Pax's own childhood in Auckland and set in the early 2000s. Audio

New Zealanders are putting their hands up to help settle refugees, through a new community sponsorship scheme that's on top of the Government quota.

Amnesty International is a strong supporter of the… Audio

Myint Aung San talks to Kadambari Raghukumar in this Voices episode about his dreams to change the refugee experience in camps by changing the way they're built.  Audio

To Australia now where their government is inching closer to settling a nine-year-old offer by New Zealand to accept 150 refugees each year from offshore detention centres.

Australian Home Affairs… Audio

For five years, Shabana Basij-Rasihk dressed as a boy so she could attend a secret school in Kabul under the Taliban rule in 90's. She talks to Jesse about setting up a school for girls and why… Audio

Community lawyers say the government is effectively blocking scores of Afghans from escaping the Taliban in their country.

They say there has been slow processing of some visas, and worse still, no… Audio