Federal Attorney General Mark Dreyfus has laid out the government’s anti-racism strategy in major speech this month. Delivering the Australian Human Rights Commission’s annual Kep Enderby Memorial Lecture, Mr Dreyfus said “Australia’s continued success as a multicultural nation must include…

Thousands of protestors have been detained and hundreds killed in a brutal crackdown by Iranian authorities, according to a new report by NGO Human Rights Watch. “Iranian authorities have ruthlessly cracked down on widespread anti-government protests with excessive and lethal force…

A peace deal signed in Ethiopia this month has brought hope for an end to the world’s deadliest conflict.  After two years of war and hundreds of thousands of deaths, a ceasefire arrangement was struck on November 2 between Ethiopia’s…

The number of people displaced by gang-related violence in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, has tripled in the past five months, according to a new report from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The report identified more 113,000 internally displaced people (IDPs)…

A new album captures the songs and music of migrants travelling the Balkans route seeking safety in Europe after fleeing war and persecution in the Middle East. ‘The Balkan Route’, produced by No Borders Music has collected, eight haunting pieces…

Afghan businessman Khalilullah Dydar is a two time refugee. As a boy and a member of Hazara ethnic minority he fled the rise to power of the Taliban in his homeland in the 1990s. But his new life in Ukraine…

The latest cohort of seagoing asylum seekers fleeing oppression are indigenous Russians escaping conscription into the war in Ukraine. Two Russian Indigenous Siberians took to a small boat to cross the treacherous Bering Sea to avoid having to fight the…

A group of the world’s most powerful CEOs has been quietly supporting the US refugee settlement effort get back to its pre-COVID intake levels. Led by Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai and Accenture’s Julie Sweet, the ‘CEO Council’ of 36 top US…

Non-English speaking Australians are under-represented in the political life of the nation, a new report from the Scanlon Foundation argues. And the report, the latest in the Scanlon Foundation narrative series, says that the representation gap in Australia is not…

At least 5,684 people have died on migration routes to and within Europe since the beginning of 2021, according to a new report from the Missing Migrants Project. The report says there have been increasing numbers of deaths seen on…

Turkey has abruptly arrested and deported hundreds of Syrian men and boys back to Syria, according to the NGO Human Rights Watch. The international non-profit group said deported Syrians had reported to its researchers that many of them were arrested…

More than a year after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Afghanistan’s female flag-bearer from the past two Olympic Games is rebuilding her life in Australia. In July 2021, Kimiya Yousofi ran a personal best of 13.29 seconds in the…