Major international donors to the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), including Australia, have suspended funding after reports that about a dozen of its tens of thousands of Palestinian employees were involved in the deadly Hamas attack On Israel IN October.…

Last year saw unprecedented suppression of human rights as well as wartime atrocities and cynical transactional diplomacy that had negative impacts on vulnerable people across the globe, according to the latest annual report from NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW). In…

The United Nations’ migration agency IOM has recently released its five year strategic plan as global migration reaches record levels. The International Organization of Migration (IOM) says the plan is aimed at delivering on the promise of safe, orderly, and…

The arrival of asylum seekers in Ireland has sparked a toxic political debate leading to protests and several alleged cases of arson at hotels earmarked as immigration accommodation. Ireland’s Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar has warned that someone will be…

Europe will see an increase in migration this year as people try to reach the continent before new laws come into place that aim to cut the number of arrivals, a new report says. The report, from the Vienna-based International…

Last year saw sharp rise in the number of new or deepening humanitarian crises – the highest annual number of declared emergencies in the last decade – according to a new report from the UIN refugee agency UNHCR. The UNHCR’s…

Many refugees and asylum seekers suffer serious psychological impacts because of their experiences that are often not captured in clinical assessments, a new study has found. And the functional impairment that this can cause needs to be recognised by countries…

The steamy jungles of the Thai-Burma border are a world away from the manicured lawns and parterre gardens of Melbourne’s Werribee Park Mansion. But for young refugee Nay Kaw, the pink flowering hibiscus in the mansion’s formal gardens are link…

As freezing temperatures hit US cities, hundreds of asylum seekers are being evicted from homeless shelters as their 30-day curfews expire. The 30-day limit for individuals and 60 days for families was imposed by New York mayor Eric Adams as…

Increasing numbers of Chinese asylum seekers are appearing on the US-Mexico border trying to enter America in a surprising new trend. Reports from the US say that in the first 11 months of 2023, more than 31,000 Chinese citizens were…

Migration continues to contribute to Australia’s population growth and economic growth, new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows. The year ending June 30, 2023, saw a net gain of 518,000 people to Australia’s population through migration, the…

The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has urged the world to “not forget” Ukraine as the embattle country prepares to mark two years since Russia invaded. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said in a media conference the…