Horrific images have emerged of migrants being sold at slave markets in Libya. The practice has been reported on before but the images, published this week by CNN, are the first concrete proof of the trade in humans. On the…

From island nations in the Pacific being subsumed by the rising seawater to drought-wracked pasts of Africa, there’s a growing body of evidence linking migration and climate change. In a speech earlier this year, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned…

Just four years after arriving in Australia teenager Melika Dolatabadi is on her way to realising her dream of becoming a professional soccer player. The 17-year-old has just been accepted into an elite women’s soccer program. She will be joining…

A lack of local work experience and a foreign sounding name are among the barriers new arrivals to Australia face in finding work here, a new survey has found. It also found that migrants felt excluded by recruitment processes and…

A third of backpackers and a quarter of international students in Australia are being routinely ripped off by employers who are paying them $12 an hour or less, according to a new study. The study says this rate of pay…

The majestic Mountain Ash forests of the Dandenong Ranges are a long way from the mangrove swamps of Manus Island and the coral outcrops of Nauru. But scattered among the tree ferns and messmate stands around the townships of Monbulk…

Victorians led the charge towards the legalisation of same sex marriage, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Almost 65 per cent of Victorians backed the change – above the national figure of 62 percent and the…

Israel is set to forcibly deport around 40,000 African asylum seekers after the country reached an ‘international agreement’. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced this week that he reached an unspecified “international agreement” allowing the country to send the asylum…

The UNHCR’s regional Representative in Australia Thomas Albrecht recently gave a briefing to refugee community groups on the global refugee crisis and moves afoot to find solutions. The talk highlighted increasing humanitarian crises in places like Myanmar, where half a…

Refugees entering Europe are being unduly and illegally criminalised by local authorities, denied the right to due process and basic human rights as well as being detained in often appalling conditions, according to a new United Nations report. Last year,…

  Innes Willox, whose organisation represents 60,000 businesses which employ a million Australians, says access to skills for the future is posing a real and immediate challenge. “We are going to run off the cliff very soon when it comes…

A new interactive map gives a fascinating insight into how the source of refugees to the US has shifted dramatically over the past 15 years. As the Trump administration moves to cut refugee numbers settling in the US, the map…