With borders slammed shut, jobs lost and aid increasingly difficult to deliver, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated humanitarian crises across the globe. So what will happen in 2021 as the pandemic continues and the rollout of vaccines in many part…

Melbourne’s population will flat line this year because the COVID pandemic has halted overseas immigration, according to a new report. The study says the city will have 540,000 fewer people in 20 years than was recently forecast. High immigration has…

More than 80 governments have used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to silence critics and adopt new repressive laws criminalising or stifling free speech, according to a new report from the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW). The report says…

City of Melbourne councillors have become embroiled in a heated debate about Australia’s asylum and refugee policy. The council’s Future Melbourne committee recently passed a refugee advocacy motion after a debate over how to best support the 13 refugees still…

The Victorian Government is continuing to support diverse communities to cope with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic with an extra $8 million earmarked for self-help programs. The state government’s CALD Communities Taskforce is continuing to partner with local communities…

2021 will see the return of Cultural Diversity Week after a hiatus last year caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, with celebrations taking place between March 21 and 28. This year, the Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC) is asking Victorians to think…

All refugee children living in host countries could receive educations at a cost of just $US4.85 billion a year, according to a new report by the World Bank and the UNHCR. The ‘Global Cost of Inclusive Refugee Education’ report computed…

AMES featured at SA jobs expo AMES Australia is currently a key exhibitor at a signature jobs expo hosted by the South Australian Government. AMES SA is participating in the online ‘Pathways to Employment Expo’ hosted by SA’s Department of…

A group of refugee and human rights groups have issued a statement condemning the Malaysian Government for deporting of refugees and asylum seekers back to Myanmar following the military coup these on February 1. The groups – the Asia Pacific…

Migrants and people with disability have been the most likely in Australia to be impacted emotionally by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data from Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). A survey by the ABS of attitudes to COVOD carried…

Rohingya author and refugee Habibrahman, who fled repression and torture in his homeland and eventually found safety and a new life in Australia, fears a new round of ethnic cleansing will begin in Burma following the February 1 military coup.…

People seeking asylum in the United States are being allowed into the country for the first time in years as thousands of others wait for courts to decide on their cases. The move unwinds one of the Trump administration’s central immigration…