Modern day slavery, which has seen more than 40 million people become the victims of forced labour or unwanted marriage, is now the world’s largest organised criminal enterprise, according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO). An…

South Sudan, the world’s newest nation state, is working to finalise a migration policy that it hopes will enhance the country’s capacity to manage its borders while also protecting the rights of migrants and helping to entrench a peace accord…

The federal government has launched a scheme to help vulnerable Australians, including those from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities, access appropriate and high quality aged care. The Aged Care System Navigator trials will be rolled out across Australia at…

It’s been called a “small miracle’ by the media and it’s one of those stories that almost restores your faith in human nature. A church in Holland has protected a family of Armenian asylum seekers from being deported by holding…

The flow of refugees across the Mediterranean is showing signs of slowing but the route remains the deadliest for people seeking asylum or sanctuary, according to new data from the United Nations. The UN’s migration agency, the International Organization for Migration (IOM),…

Less than 5 per cent of refugees needing resettlement found new homes in 2018 despite record levels of worldwide forced human displacement, new figures from the UNHCR show. The data shows just 4.7 per cent of global refugee resettlement needs…

Rural development is key to ending poverty and hunger, and we can’t pass the buck on the issue, Pope Francis said. Addressing the 42nd Governing Council of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome, the Pontiff said the…

Migration is increasingly becoming an important factor in diplomatic relations between nation states, a raft of new research has found. The story of Rahaf Mohammed, the Saudi teenager granted asylum by Canada after barricading herself in a Bangkok hotel room,…

New Zealanders and international students make up more than 70 per cent of people living temporarily in Australia, a new Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) snapshot of temporary residents in Australia shows. Of the 1.6 million temporary residents in Australia,…

Iranian refugee Hadi Mohammadi has carved out a “dream role” for himself playing and teaching music to residents in care homes in Melbourne’s north. Hadi, who was part of AMES Australia’s ‘Voices Without Borders’ choir, struggled to find work in…

Two former senior western politicians have called on the world to see refugees as economic assets who have much to contribute to countries around the globe while appealing to states to offer hope to the millions who are currently displaced.…

They are the refugees that the world has forgotten – the 40 million people who are Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). IDPs are people forced to flee their home and seek refuge elsewhere inside their home countries and they often struggle…