Danial Haron’s calloused and gnarled fingers tell the story of a life of hard, unremitting work. The 93-year-old Syrian refugee has seen trouble and hardship in his long life; he fought with the British army in WWII and he carved…

A Chinese tourist who tried to report a stolen wallet during a visit to Germany unwittingly signed an asylum application form that got him presumed to be a refugee and tangled him up in immigration bureaucracy for two weeks. The…

Amid the furore around drug cheats being allowed to compete, security failures, non-existent plumbing and all pervasive social media nastiness – they are the true inspirations of the Rio Olympics. They are the 10 members of the first ever refugee…

Economies across large swathes of the globe could shrink dramatically by mid-century as fresh water grows scarce due to climate change and potentially triggering new and larger refugee crises, the World Bank has warned. The Middle East could be hardest…

Large corporate businesses have launched a push to broaden cultural diversity among their senior staff as a new report reveals fewer than five per cent of the nation’s leadership come from non-European backgrounds. The big four accounting firms – PwC,…

The gap between rich and poor in Australia is widening with the traditional middle class rump of the population starting to disappear, new research shows. A report by social researchers McCrindle found the top 20 per cent of households now…

The stark differences between the Republican and Democrat parties over migration were laid bare during the US primaries. But the issues at stake were brought into sharper focus this week when it became increasingly likely that the Obama administration will…

A Melbourne asylum seeker has been recognised for two years of unstinting volunteer service to some of Victoria’s most vulnerable and ailing people. Saiprashanthan Candiah (Sai) has been volunteering at Monash Refugee Health in Dandenong for more than two years,…

A worsening but largely forgotten humanitarian crisis is unfolding in West Africa’s Lake Chad region as almost 10 million people are in need of life saving assistance. The UN’s top relief official Stephen O’Brien says the crisis is “the new…

The developed world is becoming more insular, less welcoming and ambivalent to the plight of the planet’s most vulnerable people, if two new surveys are to be believed. The surveys paint a picture of the first world becoming inured to…

New Zealand, Indonesia – including Bali – and the US were the top three most popular travel destinations for people leaving Australia in 2015-16, according to new figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). ABS Migration Analysis and…

Reducing the assessment period for asylum seekers could improve their employment chances and integrate them into their adopted country more quickly, a new study has found. An analysis of refugee data from Switzerland shows that reducing the waiting time by…