The latest destination for Sri Lankan asylum seekers fleeing the fallout from the nation’s decades long civil war – and the latest political twist in the saga – is the tiny French administered island of Reunion, about 800 kilometres off…

Migrant women in Australia are finding more independence and a healthier and wealthier life with more opportunity than in their home countries, according to a new survey. An overwhelming majority of women migrants find life in Australia ‘better’ than in…

Heroism can be a clichéd concept. One definition says it amounts to putting others first – even at your own peril. Another goes: ‘When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honour scorns to…

Around 250,000 young people are unemployed across Australia with some regions seeing youth unemployment rates as high as 25 percent, according to new research. Regional areas in NSW, Victoria and Queensland have among the highest rates of youth unemployment in…

Pakistan has been lauded by the international humanitarian sector for allowing hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees in the country as legal refugees to open bank accounts. The move will enable Afghans to formally participate in the national economy. The…

The number of refugees and migrants who have fled human rights abuse, violence and political and economic turmoil in Venezuela has reached 3.4 million, according to the UNHCR and IOM, the International Organization for Migration. Data from national immigration authorities…

The Trump administration is seeking to deport thousands of Vietnamese refugees who have committed minor crimes even though they were ostensibly protected by a 2008 non-refoulement agreement. In the forty years since the end of the Vietnam War, refugees fleeing…

It’s not just in the ‘usual suspect’ countries of Africa, the Middle East and Asia where there are concerns about human rights abuses. Several recent developments suggest there is cause for concern about the treatment of vulnerable people in western…

Human rights are under fire across the globe with civil, political, economic, social and cultural freedoms coming under threat from authoritarian rule and the rise of hate speech, according to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Mr Guterres, speaking at the…

Companies that hire and successfully integrate refugees into their workforces benefit from higher retention rates, better management skills and a wider potential labour pool, a recent publication has revealed. As such, the Migrant Council of Australia (MCA), in conjunction with…

Minister launches AMES Australian refugee book Victoria’s Multicultural Affairs Minister Richard Wynne recently launched AMES Australia’s new book ‘Refugee Stories: In Their Own Words’ at a media event in Fitzroy. The Minister congratulated AMES Australia on the book and on the…

Migration into Britain from the European Union has crashed to near-decade lows as uncertainty over Brexit makes the UK less attractive to workers from the other 27 EU countries. But net migration from non-EU countries has risen to its highest…