Driving into the Pacific Market at Ardeer, in Melbourne’s west, you are met with an array of flags and numerous food trucks. Pakistani, Italian, Indian and many other cuisines have formed a United Nations of food, ready to welcome visitors…

More than 60 million women and girls across the world who are forcibly displaced or stateless face high risks of gender-based violence”, according to the United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR. A new UNHCR report says “reports of conflict-related sexual violence…

A new United Nations initiative aims to reduce the risk that migrants die or go missing following a record 8,600 migrant deaths in 2023. The initiative is described in recommendations made in the 2024 report on the implementation of the…

The current debate over Australia’s migrant intake may have been distorted by selective interpretations of migration data and hijacked for political purposes, new data suggests. Using a ‘fixed point projection’, Melbourne University demographer Peter McDonald found that by March 2024, Australia…

Refugees are overwhelmingly settling well in Australia with increasing rates of employment rates and English language over the past decade, according to a landmark study into humanitarian settlement outcomes in Australia. The ‘Building a New Life in Australia’ (BNLA) study…

Australia’s Syrian refugee community is celebrating the fall of the brutal Assad regime in their homeland but they also have concerns about what the future holds for Syria. The regime of dictator Bashar al Assad was toppled this week by…

The UN refugee agency UNHCR has launched an appeal to raise $US10 billion for 2025 to meet critical needs of millions of refugees, displaced persons and stateless people worldwide. The appeal is also aimed at funding sustainable solutions to displacement.…

Unprecedented numbers of conflicts are currently afflicting the world, driving human displacement and humanitarian crises. Many people would think that the world’s most turbulent and violent times are behind us – nearly 80 years after the end of the Second…

The first child born among the Afghan refugees airlifted out of danger following the Taliban’s dramatic seizure of power in the country in 2021 has turned three. Ibrahim was born prematurely but safely in Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital in September…

Afghan refugee Narges Hazareh is following her dream of establishing a career in art. Narges was born and raised in Afghanistan but found her love for art at an early age when she was a refugee in Iran. Now living…

A new multicultural foundation has been established in Melbourne to promote opportunity and provide resources, support, and advocacy for multicultural communities in Australia. The ‘Bruce Wong Foundation’ is “dedicated to advancing a fair and equitable Australia by addressing and removing…

Noble Peace Prize winner and Afghan refugee Malala Yousafzai has spoken out about the erosion of women’s rights in Afghanistan under the Taliban. Malala survived being shot by a Taliban extremist as she sat on a school bus in 2012.…