AMES volunteer coaching young people in life skills AMES Australia youth mentor volunteer Wendy Fayad says her background as an immigrant and her training as a counsellor have helped her in her work supporting young people from diverse cultures. “I’ve…

A group of more than 30 leading US public health experts have called on the Trump administration to withdraw an order than enables the mass deportation of asylum seekers under emergency provision of the nations’ COVID-19 response. An open letter,…

In 2018 alone, more than 16 million people were displaced from their homes by extreme climate events – most of them from poorer nations, according to new research. Scientists at Germany’s Max Planck Institute have used a climate game to…

Dr Bulent Hass Dellal, AO, has stepped down as SBS Chair after three years and ten years as a board member. He said it had been an honour to serve at time of change for both media and Australia’s diverse…

Australia faces a sharp fall in migration over the coming year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, putting at risk decades of economic growth, economists say. Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed that the nation faces its first real shortage of migrants…

India’s COVID-19 lockdown was declared with just four hours’ notice sparking a massive and often tragic exodus of migrant workers from the cities to their home villages. The workers, the mainstay of the nation’s labour force, spilled out of big…

Greece has been accused of illegally deporting asylum seekers from its islands in the Aegean Sea by putting them in orange rescue rafts and setting them adrift. A report by the ‘Just Security’ website claims there have been at least…

The United Nations has launched an initiative to combat the rising tide of fake news, conspiracy theories and hate speech that has come with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. The ‘Verified’ program aims to empower people across the globe…

Malaysia’s COVID-19-induced lockdown through its Movement Control Order (MCO) is causing extraordinary hardship for refugees and asylum seekers in the country. Most asylum seekers work informally in the cash economy to earn daily or weekly ages and have no job…

Sports programs are helping refugees and displaced people cope with the COVID-19 crisis. The Olympic Refuge Foundation (ORF) and UN refugee agency UNHCR have announced the launch of several new sports initiatives aimed at helping young people. Thomas Bach, the…

Net migration to the UK from countries outside the European Union has risen to its highest level for 45 years, the country’s statistics agency says. Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures an estimated 282,000 more non-EU citizens came to the…

Spain has eclipsed Germany as the top destination for asylum-seekers in Europe thanks to an influx of displaced people from Latin America, according to new data. A new reports from the European Union’s asylum agency EASO says that Spain has…