Legal representation and country of origin are key factors in asylum seekers winning successful reviews of applications for refugee status, according to new research. Asylum seekers represented by a lawyer are seven times more likely to succeed in appeals to…

The United Nations made an urgent appeal Tuesday for tens of millions of dollars to help protect vulnerable refugees against the spread of the deadly new coronavirus. The UN refugee agency UNHCR said it was seeking an initial $US33 million…

In an increasingly globalised world temporary migration is a fact of life; as in the notion that people across the globe are becoming more and more mobile. Last year the Shadow Minister for Home Affairs, Kristina Keneally lamented that “Australia’s…

Batool Albatat fled the first Gulf War and Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime with her family as an 11-year-old girl. Put by people smugglers aboard a leaky boat piloted by a 14-year-old boy, the family and their fellow travellers became lost…

A decade-long program to resettle refugees in a struggling regional Victorian town has added more than $100 million and 156 jobs to the local economy and resulted in positive social outcomes for the settling refugee families and the local community,…

The extraordinary arc of Gabriela Castro’s life has brought her to the small town of Nhill, in Victoria’s Wimmera, where she is working with young members of the town’s Karen refugee community. It’s a place she had not heard of…

As talks in the Pakistani capital Islamabad get underway on the future of almost five million Afghan refugees, Afghan-Hazara refugee and award winning photo-journalist Barat Ali Batoor reflects on his peoples’ four decades of exile. It has been 40 years…

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has penned an essay for Time magazine on the desperate plight of refugees from Syria as the conflict there appears to be entering an endgame. Ms Jolie, a long time special envoy for the Office of…

A new series of eye-catching portraits that celebrate the individuality of refugee women is creating a buzz in the art world. The collection, titled ‘Chrysalis’, is an amazing series of portraits by Greek visual artist and photographer Olga Stefatou. Ms…

Women fleeing persecution and sexual violence are being left destitute and impoverished in Britain without access to housing, financial support or the right to work, according to a new report. The report by NGO Women for Refugee Women says of…

Japan’s history and reputation as an insular country unwelcoming of foreigners may by about to change. A recent poll last month by The Nikkei Shimbun newspaper found that 70 percent of Japanese people said they believe an increase in foreigners…

There are fears of a fresh exodus of hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of Syrian refugees as the conflict around the last rebel stronghold of Idlib enters what appears to be an endgame. Already, the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR…