Islamophobia and antisemitism are on the rise in Australia following recent events in the Middle East. The ABC has reported Australian Muslims are now receiving death threats, verbal abuse, and physical assaults, while Muslim-owned businesses are being boycotted. The attacks…

Migration saw Australia gain 446,000 people over the 2023-24 financial year, new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show. The figure was a decrease from the record 536,000 people who arrived in the previous year but higher than…

The UN refugee agency UNHCR has called on countries to reverse a decision to pause the processing Syrians’ asylum claims. Many nations, including most European countries, have paused asylum claims by Syrians after the fall of the Bashar Al-Assad Regime.…

The fall of the Al-Assad regime in Syria has triggered a humanitarian crisis in the northwest of the country, according to the UN’s migration agency IOM. IOM is urgently appealing for $US30 million to assist almost 700,000 people in northwest…

Sixty percent of people internally displaced within their own countries by conflict or disaster would rather remain in their current locations than return to their communities of origin, according to new report. And of people who have been displaced more…

The migrant population in the US reached a record 47.8 million in 2023, an increase of 1.6 million from the previous year, according to new research. The number represents the largest annual increase since 2000, according to data gathered by…

A legal impasse over a group of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers who arrived on the British Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia three years ago has ended with the group being allowed to enter the UK. The Tamils arrived…

The federal government has announced a new temporary visa designed to attract and retain skilled workers and fill the nation’s critical labour shortages. The Skills in Demand (SID) visa came into effect this month, replacing the Temporary Skills Shortage (TSS)…

More than 4.5 million migrants and refugees from Venezuela have obtained regular status in 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean since 2019, according to the United Nations.   Praising reginal governments, the UN said the number was achieved…

Opinion By Katerina Hatzi Human rights advocacy group Global Citizen reports that “women in conflict zones are 7.7 times more likely to experience extreme poverty.” The female experience during conflicts often involves much suffering, from experiencing gender violence to not…

A refugee family facing significant and multiple barriers to settlement have been supported to build happy, successful lives in Adelaide thanks to a collaboration between humanitarian settlement and NDIS services.   Afghan refugee and single parent Zobeideh Ramezani arrived in…

A compelling new book tells the inspirational stories of second-generation migrant Australians, who share their families’ settlement journeys and their own search for identity. Titled ‘At the Heart of Identity’, the book reveals the both inspirational and heart-wrenching stories of…