As a signatory to a number of international treaties, Australia is obliged to protect the human rights of all asylum seekers and refugees who arrive in Australia, regardless of how or where they ...

Sun Seekers, the first novel from writer and PEOPLE editor Rachel McRady, tells the story of precocious six-year-old Gracie Lynn, who sets out to break her grandfather John, who has dementia ...

With SUPERMAN releasing in roughly seven months, director James Gunn shared what movies from the past inspired his filmmaking.

Every day, people around the world arrive in another country hoping to rebuild their lives. There are many reasons they may do this. Some make the decision to leave their home and move abroad to ...

From director Richard Donner’s classic interpretation to modern comic runs like All-Star Superman, Gunn’s approach draws from multiple eras of Superman storytelling while promising something new.

Human Rights Watch’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Division defends the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, displaced people, and migrants worldwide. We investigate rights violations arising from ...

The Home Office plans to buy hundreds of properties for asylum seekers could make “the acute shortage of housing” even worse. The Government is to purchase up to 800 properties in an attempt ...

The US Department of State's January 2025 Visa Bulletin has been released, marking the first bulletin of the new year and showing notable progress in several employment-based (EB) visa categories ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. A rioter who tried to set fire to a hotel used for asylum seekers while wearing a purple England kit during the UK summer riots has been jailed.

But as the United States prepares for a new presidential administration, the Roosevelt Hotel has also become a symbol of the uncertainty facing the city’s migrants and asylum seekers.

Asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea will be stripped of government-provided housing and healthcare under a new deal that forces them to cover all living expenses with a single allowance.