Refugees

Grangetown Boys and Girls Club is getting everyone involved in shared projects The club helps many who face the effects of poverty, isolation, and social change (Image: Rahaf Ali) At at time when youth services has seen steep cuts, one of Cardiff's few remaining open-access youth centres is working to…

Canada’s immigration landscape has shifted over the course of 2025. Many of the policy changes introduced have had significant implications for foreign nationals seeking temporary or permanent residence in Canada. In this article, we’ll review the major changes implemented by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), whom they affect, and…

(RNS) — A few humanitarians have become household names: Mother Teresa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mahatma Gandhi. Maggy Barankitse is another — not nearly as well known, but driven by fighting injustice and a theological vision to make the world a better place. Barankitse, who is now 69 and living…

Foreign nationals applying for Canadian study permits will soon require over $2000 in additional funds. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has updated its proof of financial support requirement for study permit applications. For a family of one, the minimum amount of funds required — on top of first year's…

As scientific research opportunities are increasingly at risk, the U.S. is creating refugees of science. Instead of sticking around and remaining worried about their U.S. jobs, scientists are turning to international institutions to create new opportunities for themselves without fear of the Trump administration. Background Trump has severely curtailed research…

Kimia, 25, an Afghan journalist and artist who was accepted into Germany's humanitarian admission programme for vulnerable Afghans, now stranded in legal limbo, speaks with Reuters at a guest house where she is living, in Islamabad, June 13, 2025. — Reuters  BERLIN/ISLAMABAD: In a cramped guesthouse in the federal capital,…

Sonia Dhamani, a fierce critic of President Kais Saied, has criticised him for practices against refugees and migrants. A Tunisian court has sentenced Sonia Dhamani, a prominent lawyer and renowned critic of President Kais Saied, to two years in jail, lawyers have said, in a case that rights groups say…

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Egypt has issued an urgent appeal for funding as it faces the prospect of suspending humanitarian food assistance to more than 235,000 refugees and vulnerable people in Egypt by August 2025. The challenge in securing funding, driven by shifting donor priorities, evolving…

The situation of Sudanese refugees in neighbouring Chad is reaching a breaking point as the number of arrivals in the country increases, humanitarian actors warned. Chad hosts a quarter of the 4 million refugees who fled the Sudanese civil war since April 2023. An additional 80,000 people left Sudan for…

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is working towards the creation of a new foreign labour stream. The stream will focus on filling labour shortages in Canada's agriculture and fish processing sector. Discover if You Are Eligible for Canadian Immigration What do we know about the upcoming stream? The department…