Volunteering is a way of life for Robert and Cherie Wolfe. The Red Cliffs couple have been supporting newly arrived migrants and refugees improve their English through conversation sessions as volunteers with migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia. But…

The US will accept up to 125,000 refugees over the next US financial year. The number represents a continuance of the US’ cap on the refugee intake from the previous year. A group of Democrat Congress members revealed the move…

The European Union has struck an agreement on how member states will handle a sudden increase in the number of people seeking asylum in the event of war, natural disaster or climate emergency. The new protocols will permit frontline states…

Motaz Bahageel is from Sudan and Hasan and Rizwan are from Egypt. Other teammates are from Palestine, India and Malaysia. These are ‘The Avengers’, a pick up team of local doctors who competed in the recent ‘AMES Australia Multicultural Cup’,…

Pakistan has ordered more than 1.7 million unauthorised Afghan asylum seekers to leave the country by November. The move comes in the wake of escalating tensions along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, which Islamabad attributes to Afghanistan-based militia groups. And it comes…

Long-term asylum seekers have welcomed plans to speed up asylum claim processing in a move they say will be “life changing”. Immigration minister Andrew Giles has announced a $160 million package to tackle the backlog of asylum claims, including $54…

The new head of the UN’s migration agency IOM has laid out her agenda and priorities as she begins her five-year term. Former US bureaucrat Amy Pope says her focus will be on climate, more regular pathways for migrants and…

An Afghan refugee living in Melbourne has been reunited with members of his family he has not seen for more than nine years. Dr Abdulatif Stanikzai, who fled Afghanistan in 2014 after becoming a target of a Taliban execution squad,…

A refugee from war-torn Lebanon narrowly escaped death when he was hit by a stray bullet on the streets of Sydney. Ramadan Osman was collateral damage in Sydney’s gangland war when, as an innocent bystander, he was hit in the…

Australia’s Armenian community is rallying to support around 120,000 of their compatriots who have become refugees fleeing the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. The Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh – a territory internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but previously beyond its control…

Rock legend Elton John has spoken out against UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s calls to ban LGBTQ+ asylum seekers from coming to the UK. Ms Braverman faced a backlash after her comment that “simply being gay, or a woman” is…

Almost 120 newly arrived asylum seeker and refugee families across Melbourne have received crucial material goods for their children in the past year, thanks to a remarkable volunteer community group. St Kilda Mums, a not-for-profit organisation, re-homes new and pre-loved…