Access to education for displaced refugees is very limited compared to the general populations in their host countries, a new report from the UN refugee agency UNHCR has found. Titled ‘All Inclusive: The Campaign for Refugee Education’, the report found…

With tens of thousands people fleeing repression in Venezuela and Cuba, the Americas are seeing their biggest ever migration crisis, local reports says. The latest exodus from Cuba and Venezuela adds to the flow of people from South and Central…

The Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia (CaSFFA) has announced its 10th annual festival which kicks off on October 6. This year’s theme is “Movement” Pohyb – Posun – Action – Motion – Progress – Change – Expansion. The organisers…

A stunning and deeply personal art exhibition by a group of Syrian women artists who fled the conflict in their homeland is on display in Melbourne’s CBD. The exhibition titled ‘Amal’, which means ‘hope’ in Arabic features 28 works that…

The global humanitarian sector is struggling to keep pace with soaring needs and costs and reform is coming too slowly, a new landmark study has warned. The ‘State of the Humanitarian System 2022’ report, published by ALNAP, a global network…

Point Cook, in Melbourne’s western suburbs, is arguably the nation’s most multicultural community with residents born in 140 different countries. This is one of the fascinating results of the recent 2021 Australian Census’ deeper dive into cultural diversity. For the…

Fatima Payman is the first hijab-wearing senator to take a place in the Australian Parliament. And, in another history-making twist, at just 27 she is the youngest person in the current parliament. Senator Payman is an Australian Muslim with cultural…

Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth stepped down at the end of August after nearly 30 years in the job. Mr Roth has led the organisation since 1993, transforming it from a small group of regional ‘watch committees’ into…

Modern slavery has surged over the past five years with 50 million people now trapped in work or marriage against their will, according to a new report. The report, from the International Labour Organisation (ILO), says the crisis has been…

Australia is increasingly becoming an urban-dwelling nation with the major cities seeing unprecedented population increases, according to new data from the Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The number of Australians living in the capital cities increased by 2.5 million, or…

Almost 100,000 refugees from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have fled to Uganda so far this year in an emerging fresh humanitarian crisis. And the number of arrivals is expected to reach 150,000 by the…

A perfect storm of global crises have combined to push up levels of acute malnutrition in dozens of refugee locations across the world, most of them in Africa, according the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR. A new report, the ‘2021 Annual…