Fruit and vegetable crops are being left to rot on British farms because of a shortage of labour blamed on last year’s Brexit vote. Britain’s National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has called the UK Government to implement a seasonal agricultural workers…

The world refugee crisis is the moral “test of our times” and is critical but not overwhelming, according to David Miliband, CEO of the US-based global aid organisation International Rescue Committee. Mr Milliband, a former British Foreign Secretary and the…

Sometimes the sheer scale of human tragedy is difficult to comprehend. Last week a German newspaper attempted to conceptualize the number of people who have died on their journey to Europe, seeking refuge from conflict and poverty. Berlin-based daily Der Tagesspiegel…

When Australia’s Socceroos face Honduras this weekend, they will see a wall of passionate local fans, maybe some smoke flares and, according to sports pundits, a well organised defence. They will also see armed guards, an inflatable tunnel outside their…

Read about the latest news, research and initiatives from migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia…   AMES launches first South Australian site AMES Australia has launched its new site in Salisbury, South Australia, with an afternoon tea attended by…

As a doctor working in Iraq during the conflict there, Asseel Yako saved hundreds of lives. His daily work was tending to battlefield wounds suffered by soldiers or militia members fighting ISIS or patching up women children horrifically injured in…

Akram Abouhamdan and his wife Joumana have just opened the first Syrian food shop on Lygon Street, in the historic Melbourne suburb of Carlton. The shop – which sells Syrian sweets and dips, baklava and hand-made pasta – is quietly…

A broader picture of Australia’s diversity, population dynamics and multiculturalism is emerging as more of the 2016 Census data is analysed. Australians are the most welcoming people on earth when it comes to migrants with more than six million, or…

A new magazine that gives a voice to the people of Syria through stories, poetry and reflection has published its second edition. The Melbourne-based editors of ‘Beloved Syria – Considering Syrian Perspectives’ say the magazine aims to reveal the beauty…

Soaring global migration is fundamentally changing how and where most people live, a new report shows. Focusing on settlement in cities, the report by the World Economic Forum, identified housing, healthcare, education and employment as the critical areas for successful…

The United Nations’ migration agency has warned of an imminent humanitarian crisis in Yemen as famine and cholera engulf the war-ravaged nation. Director General of the International Organisation for Migration William Lacy Swing warned of the unfolding crisis while urging…

Award-winning Canadian photojournalist Kevin Frayer has spent two weeks in Bangladesh documenting the lives of some of the more than half a million Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar since late August His haunting black-and-white images give insights into the…