An Afghan refugee family have launched a new business in Melbourne selling traditional Afghan and Middle Eastern women’s clothing. The shop, called Afghan Luxury Collection’ recently opened in the Sunshine Plaza, in Melbourne’s west and is already attracting a loyal…

Recruitment giant Adecco Group has pledged to find jobs for 85,000 refugees globally, and train or upskill 17,000 by the end of 2027. The commitment raises a previous target set by the Swiss-based company. The number of refugees in European…

A poignant new exhibition in Berlin tells the story of the Kindertransport, a remarkable effort to rescue mostly Jewish children from the clutches of the Nazis in the lead up to World War II. About 10,000 children, the majority from…

A new UN report on Darfur is ringing alarm bells in the humanitarian world. The report, yet to be officially released but briefed to media, describes a deteriorating situation in this western region of Sudan. It comes as reports of…

Amnesty International has published a document warning that the advance of digital technology is eroding the right of refugees. The paper, titled ‘Defending the Rights of Refugees and Migrants in the Digital Age’, says there has been pervasive and rapid…

Australia’s new Race Discrimination Commissioner is an Indian-origin employment lawyer with who is also chair of the Queensland Multicultural Advisory Council. Giridharan Sivaraman, who is head of law firm Maurice Blackburn’s employment law team, begins his five-year tenure with the…

Lack of access to public benefits programs is having a significant negative effect on the health and wellbeing of migrant and refugee families in US, a new report claims. And policy decisions made over decades have left “a confusing patchwork…

A recent court ruling could be a sign of a softening of Japan’s traditionally conservative and restrictive protocols on recognising refugees. The Nagoya High Court last month ordered the Japanese government to grant refugee status to an ethnic Rohingya asylum…

Ukrainian refugees who fled to European Union countries after the Russian invasion face uncertainty about their visa status after 2025. The two-year Ukrainian-Russian war has seen millions of Ukrainian refugees flee to EU countries, where they have received generous support.…

As an archivist and technical officer with the Afghan Government Eshaq Yaqubi worked in a prestigious job just metres away from the office of the last elected president of Afghanistan Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. But it was that proximity to the centre…

Peoples around the world are divided over what defines national identity, according to a new survey of more than 20 countries. The survey, by the Washington-based think tank the Pew Research Center, found countries differ over whether things like birthplace,…

More than 560 Rohingya refugees died or were missing after attempting dangerous boat crossings to countries in South East Asia in 2023, according to a new report from the UN refugee agency UNHCR. The figure is the highest number of deaths…