The search has begun for a new head of the United Nations. This year member countries will decide who will be the organisation’s next Secretary-General when Antonio Guterres’ term ends on December 31. Whoever assumes the role on January 1,…

US representative politics is seeing more race, religious and gender diversity while Australia’s political system remains stubbornly male and white, according to a new study. Despite the xenophobic policies or former president Donald Trump and the widespread voter suppression of…

People across the globe still broadly support the idea of internationalism and inter-government cooperation despite divisive challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and the rise of nationalist leaders, a new survey has found. Research by the Washington-based think…

As life slowly returns to normal after the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia is quietly putting migration at the centre of its economic recovery strategy. As internal state borders reopen and restriction are relaxed, Australia appears to be on…

A large majority of migrants and refugees new to Australia plan to become citizens and believe it is important to celebrate Australia Day, according to a new survey. Most newcomers say they plan to mark the day in some way…

The European Union’s border agency Frontex has suspended its operations in Hungary, after an EU court ruled the country had broken the law by preventing migrants from seeking asylum. “Our common efforts to protect the EU external borders can only…

It’s the major humanitarian crisis that you may never have heard of. The nearly ten years of the conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) has killed at last 6,000 people, and possibly thousands more; it has displaced 700,000 internally…

Newly minted US president Joe Biden is set to radically revamp America’s asylum and migration system after it was effectively dismantled by the Trump administration. Recent reports from Washington have revealed how US President Joe Biden is expected to use…

Members of Melbourne’s Syrian community have launched a campaign to support the children of families in Syria who are falling into poverty and destitution as a result of a decade of war and the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent pandemic restrictions, the…

The latest annual report on global human rights has called on the incoming Biden administration in the US to restore support for human rights and embed it as an element of US domestic and foreign policy. In his introduction to…

Americans are more dived than ever on issues around migration, racial justice and international engagement, according to a new study. In his first speech as president-elect, Joe Biden promised to work to bridge the deep and bitter divisions in American…

Governments around the globe should not forget migrants and refugees as the battle against COVID-19 enters the vaccination phase, according to international aid agencies. World Health Organisation Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says prospects for equitable vaccine distribution are at ‘serious risk’.…