The United Nations has asked Japan to review its tough approach to asylum seekers on humanitarian grounds. The UN’s refugee agency UNHCR has urged Japan to resettle more asylum seekers to help solve the global displacement crisis after Japanese authorities…

The number of forcibly displaced people worldwide reached a record 80 million by the middle of this year, according to a new report from the UN refugee agency UNHCR. The report says the total number of people displaced by conflicts…

The Global Compact for Migration, adopted by countries in 2018 as a comprehensive framework for cooperation on international migration, is leading to progress, the UN claims. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the compact is ”taking root in promising ways”. But…

Afghan government and the Taliban say they have made a breakthrough in peace talks that have seen a preliminary deal reached with the first written agreement after 19 years of war. The agreement on sets out a pathway to further…

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the resilience, agility and togetherness of Australia’s diverse communities, according to some of the nation’s multicultural leaders. But it has also exposed latent racism, created rifts between some communities and governments and thrown up issues…

A family that has been on the move for eighteen years because of threats, persecution and conflict have found a home and new lives in Melbourne. Sahar Saloom and her daughters Raghdah and Abeer are now living in the city’s…

A poem that draws on the resilience and hope of refugee families and communities has won a major poetry prize. The poem ‘Can I Hold a Village?’ by writer and poet Victoria King has won the 2020 Ballina Region for…

Afghan refugee supported into work despite COVID shutdowns A young AMES Australia refugee client has been supported to secure a job in a laboratory winning out among hundreds of candidates. Afghan Waris Hasham started work this week after attending an…

The global population reached an incredible 7.8 billion people in late 2020, but that growth is expected to be coming to a halt by the end of the century. Although global population is expected to reach 10.9 billion by 2100,…

Federal Labor frontbencher Clare O’Neil has called for sweeping changes to Australia’s immigration system as part of a wide-ranging overhaul of society and industry to speed up the nation’s recovery from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The member for…

Films expose refugee plight Two new films are exposing the plight of refugees stuck in limbo in Indonesia – thousands of people who have fled violence and persecution in the home countries but who are yet to find sanctuary and…

Afghan trauma surgeon Abdullatif Stanikzai’s life changed forever the day three wounded Taliban fighters were brought into his Kabul hospital. The men had been shot and captured in a gun battle with police who demanded they be kept alive so…