Almost a third of Australians were born overseas with 7.5 million migrants living permanently across the nation, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) snapshot of our population. The ABS says that 29.7 per cent of the population…

The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) around the world has reached an all-time high of 50.8 million, according to a new report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). The Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) estimates that 45.7…

A family of Iraqi refugees has just completed two-week of self-isolation since arriving in Australia after the March 15 COVID-19 pandemic curfew. But the ordeal of being cooped up is nothing compared to the turmoil they experienced when forced to…

Newly arrived refugees and migrants are more worried and feel more vulnerable to the health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 virus crisis than ordinary Australians, according to a new snapshot poll. New arrivals are also less well informed than…

Millions of refugees across the world lack almost all of the material and circumstances needed to protect them from contracting the potentially deadly COVID-19 virus, according to one of the world’s leading humanitarian health experts. While millions of people on…

Europe’s asylum systems have been thrown into chaos by the COVID-19 pandemic with social distancing rules causing havoc for tens of thousands of people seeking safety, according to a new report from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI). The report, by…

A random quiz question has helped Anita Lussetti unearth new and poignant information about her family’s history. A Case Manager with migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia, Anita says that joining the organisation a year ago has given has…

In-language videos help in the fight against the COVID-19 virus AMES Australia is producing and posting online in-language videos to help explain to the communities we support how they can reduce their risk of contracting the COVID-19 virus. The videos and…

As we live through what is a major humanitarian crisis with the COVID-19 pandemic reaching into every corner the globe, fears are ramping up among civil society groups and humanitarian relief organisations that emerging trends which already threaten to become…

Refugees are being supported to settle and find work faster and more sustainably thanks to a new settlement support initiative that better coordinates services supporting new arrivals. The initiative, developed by migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia, uses a…

The biggest population decline in Australia’s history may have begun as a result of the COVID-19 crisis with 300,000 tourists, temporary workers and students departing so far this year, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data. But a leading…

Online hatred is going viral in what the UN calls a ‘dangerous epidemic of misinformation’ as a direct result of fear around COVID-19 pandemic, according to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Mr Guterres described the impact of the pandemic as…