More support for migrant and refugee jobseekers to capitalise on the skills and qualifications they bring with them and a focus on improving digital literacy should be areas of focus for an incoming government ahead of the November 26 Victorian…

The 2022-23 federal budget has some positive measures for Australia’s multicultural communities but there are also significant financial challenges ahead for all of the nation’s most vulnerable people. The budget was delivered amid a double dilemma of rising in inflation,…

Australians are suspicious and critical of China’s government as “authoritarian, undemocratic and oppressive”, according to a new survey by the Washington-based think tank The Pew Research Center. About a quarter (23 per cent) of Australians who responded to the survey…

US President Joe Biden has announced that 125,000 refugees will be allowed into the country during the 2023 US fiscal year, the same cap as this year. Refugee and migrant advocates have welcomed the announcement of the figure, hailing it…

The discovery of almost a hundred migrants found stripped naked near the border between Greece and Turkey marks a new low in Europe’s problematic treatment of people seeking asylum. And the incident has sparked a bitter dispute, largely on twitter, between…

The United States has announced $US240 million in new humanitarian assistance to help meet the needs of refugees and migrants across the Americas and the Western Hemisphere. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the assistance would be delivered through…

Global internet freedom has declined for the twelfth successive year, according to a new report from the NGO Freedom House. The report, titled ‘Countering an Authoritarian Overhaul of the Internet’, revealed the biggest downgrades were documented in Russia, Myanmar, Sudan,…

Malaysia deported 150 asylum seekers from Myanmar despite the risk they will be arrested in the homeland, reports say. The deportees include former navy officers seeking asylum, some of whom have been detained by the Myanmar military. The deportations come…

New York City has declared a state of emergency in response to an unprecedented influx of asylum seekers into the city, mostly from the southern border of the US. Mayor Eric Adams issued an executive order to formally direct all…

The number Australians either born overseas or with one parent born overseas has risen above 50 per cent of the population for the first time since the colonial era, according to a new Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) snapshot report.…

The treatment of migrants arriving in Europe is “disgusting, sinful and criminal” according to Pope Francis. The pope’s remarks, which were made during the canonisation of a bishop known as “the father of migrants” at the Vatican, came days after…

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been awarded the 2022 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award. Named after the Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen, the award is given to an individual, group or organisation who has gone above and…