Refugees

Twenty-five years ago when the Kosovo war ended, nearly 800,000 Kosavar Albanians were left displaced. Some went to Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro and a small number arrived in New Zealand as… Video, Audio

What's it like for a new refugee to arrive in New Zealand, get resettled and start a new life here? This month we are marking World Refugee Day with 3-part series on stories on refugee resettlement in… Video, Audio

The beautiful game became an expression for solidarity through World of Cultures' Football Fest this month bringing players together from several diaspora communities in Auckland. Kadambari Raghukumar… Audio

Conflict and coverage - why some conflicts dominate headlines for months, then suddenly get ignored  
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MIXIT in Tāmaki Makarau uses drama and dance to help young refugees gain confidence and in this Here Now episode, Phil Vine talks to former graduate Izadine Ahmed Abdallah about his story.  Audio

More than 3,300 children have been killed in Gaza since the Hamas attacks on October 7, according to an aid agency. And a further 940 are missing; believed to be buried under the rubble of buildings… Audio

The only chance 18-year-old Afghan refugee Arezo Nazari has of bringing her parents to New Zealand is through the government – and so far, three ministers have turned her down.  Audio

Former refugee calls for a Royal Commission into Australia's handling of refugees. Audio

It started as an opportunity to learn English and now it's a weekly gathering involving not just words but a thread and needle too.

Every Thursday a group of women, some of them refugees, meet to… Video, Audio

In Xinjiang, more than a million Uyghurs and Kazakhs have been arbitrarily held in "re-education" camps. In this episode of Voices, Kadambari Raghukumar speaks to people behind a new documentary based… Audio

A Canterbury refugee centre is starting up its own driving programme, taught in the native language of migrants.

It's another step towards breaking down some of the barriers to getting a drivers… Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues that matter every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

About half of the 400 people who arrive in New Zealand as asylum seekers every year end up being accepted as refugees - but why are they treated differently to people arriving through the quota… Audio

Today is World Refugee Day.. Waikato is one of the biggest refugee centres in Aotearoa, and over a hundred refugees in the Waikato are currently studying at Wintec. Among those improving their English… Audio

Holly Mathieson is based in Glasgow but for the past two and a half years she has been commuting to Halifax, Nova Scotia to act as the Music Director of Symphony Nova Scotia, one of Canada's top pro… Audio

Investigative journalist Ashleigh Stewart lives in downtown Toronto with her husband Stuart McCready, but more recently she has been stationed in Ukraine covering the war there. She's Calling Home… Audio

Journalist Greg Walters has been writing about how influencers and "beautiful people" posting glamorous selfies aboard Russian oligarchs' yachts are helping to bring down the incredibly rich people… Video, Audio