There are more than 100 conflicts unfolding in countries around the world. Many of them don’t get the media or policy attention of the wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan or Ukraine. And many do not have same geopolitical or economic…

The Grampians tourist town of Halls Gap is hosting a live music event to raise awareness of the plight of refugees and asylum seekers living in Australia. In its third year, Folk for Refugees will be held on May 27,…

Australia should announce another extraordinary humanitarian intake of refugees from the conflict in Syria, refuge advocate groups say. The call has come as the civil war in the country and humanitarian crisis deepens with the use of illegal chemical weapons…

For Syrian refugees Tawfik and Ghunwa Mira settling in Melbourne has not just given them safety and a chance to rebuild their lives, it has also given them back their son. The couple’s 11-year-old boy Yousef suffers from cerebral palsy…

The UN’s Human Rights Council is preparing a probe into alleged atrocities against Myanmar’s Rohingya people despite the Yangon government indicating it will deny investigators access to areas where crimes against humanity may have occurred. And while the resolution sponsored…

More than half of all asylum seekers in the UK live in areas that make up the poorest third of the country while the richest third of the nation houses just 10 per cent, according to an analysis by The…

With the global refugee crisis showing no sign of abating; and with the driver conflicts in Syria and Africa intensifying it may be timely to look at sixteen key facts that illustrate the massive scale of the crisis. Nearly one…

The federal government is considering encouraging migrant workers to settle in regional cities to tackle housing affordability at property hot-spots like Sydney and Melbourne, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has confirmed. The putative move comes after Treasurer Scott Morrison has made…

The average Victorian is a female in her late 30s and – for the first time – with one parent born overseas, according to the 2016 census data. The data also shows that Indians are the largest groups of migrants…

Two of the world’s leading experts on migration and human displacement have laid out a ten-point plan to fix the world’s burgeoning refugee crisis. Oxford Univeristy professors Alexander Betts and Paul Collier’s new book ‘Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System’…

Victoria is leading the nation in population growth with migrants from overseas and interstate arriving in the greatest numbers ever seen, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data. And, whether it’s a result, or a driver, of…

Australia is close to resettling the 12,000 refugees from the conflict in Syria and Iraq it committed to urgently accepting more than a year ago, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said. The Prime Minister said all 12,000 visas have been…