New research has found children and young people exploited by traffickers in Southeast Asia face lasting effects on their mental health even if they escape or are rescued. A team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)…

A new satirical version of the famous Nintendo video game ‘Super Mario Bros’ is a poignant illustration of the current plight of people attempting to flee from Syria to Europe. The one and a half minute video of Syrian Super…

Another haunting image of the global refugee crisis that is emblematic of the human tragedy has gone viral across the globe. Just weeks after the picture of three-year-old Syrian boy named Alan Kurdi who drowned in the Mediterranean broke hearts…

Australian businesses could be missing out on opportunities in Asia because of a lack of understanding of what it takes to be successful in working in Asian markets, a new survey has found. The Diversity Council Australia (DCA) has carried…

World refugee body UNHCR faces a critical change of leadership at a time when it is confronting the largest global humanitarian crisis since the end of WWII. António Guterres, a former Portuguese Prime Minister who has served as the UN…

Amid the ethnical, logistical and policy morass that is the global refugee crisis – and in an atmosphere in which conservative commentators and mealy-mouthed nationalist leaders have barked about ‘illegals’ and ‘economic refugees’ – it has taken Pope Francis to…

The Karen refugee community at Werribee featured in a new health promotion video that examines the value of food as a tool for enriching health, culture and social contracts. Produced by not-for-profit health foundation NCD Free and No Frontiers Media,…

An online phrasebook specifically designed for the needs of refugees is helping thousands throughout the world. The ‘Refugee Phrasebook’ has essential vocabulary in 30 different languages and is available free to refugees and those who want to help. From Croatian…

European Union interior ministers have voted to relocate 12,000 asylum seekers across the continent using a quota system but are yet to decide exactly how many each country will finally accept. Now the plan will go to EU presidents and…

Asylum seeker Hamid Ali rises at 5.30am each day and spends eight-to-ten hours laying bricks and pavers on suburban building sites. It’s backbreaking work that many people would eschew. But Hamid couldn’t be happier. After spending two years languishing on…

Europe remains in the grip of a migration crisis with European Union nations locked in an impasse over plans to distribute hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers across the continent. Meeting in an emergency session on Monday to discuss the…

Leading refugee and migrant settlement agency AMES Australia has welcomed the federal government’s announcement that Australia will take an extra 12,000 refugees from Syria. AMES Australia CEO Cath Scarth said Australia was well placed to accept the increased number of…