The US Supreme Court gas given the Biden administration the go-ahead to scrap the much-reviled ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy which makes asylum seekers wait in Mexico during hearings of US immigration courts. The end of the policy, a leftover from…

Global remittance flows, or money sent home by emigrants living overseas, are expected to increase by 4.2 percent this year to reach $US630 billion, according to a new report from the World Bank. This follows an almost record recovery of…

An analysis of the recent UNHCR Global Trends Report has thrown up five key points that illustrate how global forced displacement is at an all-time high and has increased every year over the past decade. The Russian invasion of Ukraine…

Nobel Peace Prize winner and Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov has auctioned off his medal for $US103.5 million, with the proceeds donated to help Ukrainian child refugees. All the proceeds from the auction, which concluded on World Refugee Day, will go…

Indians form the largest migrant population in the world and the remittance that they send home is also the highest, according to new data from the United Nations. The data from the UN Migrant Stock Database shows that the population…

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, around 6.6 million people have fled to neighbouring countries. Poland has seen the highest number of Ukrainian refugees with an estimated 3.5 million, of which 94 per cent have been women and children.…

A new book tells the inspirational story of three refugees who helped to rescue the dying rust-bucket town of Utica in upstate New York. In the mid-1800s, Utica, NY had a larger population than Detroit, Cleveland or Chicago. The size…

Australia’s population has become larger and more culturally diverse over the past five years, according to data from the 2021 census. The nation’s population increased by 2.2 million to 25.5 million between 2016 and 2021 as more than a million…

Afghans in Australia have called on the international community to step up humanitarian aid to the victims of the devastating earthquake in the Afghanistan’s Paktika province, which has left more than 1000 people dead. Ghulum Rasool Karwan, who lived in…

Twenty countries from the Americas, including the US, this month signed a historic declaration committing to help and protect “all migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, and stateless persons, regardless of their migratory status.” The ‘Los Angeles Declaration’ released by the White House…

Australians are strongly in support of welcoming refugees in their communities, according to a new study. The research, by Amnesty International Australia, came as the global community celebrates World Refugee Day It was commissioned as part of Amnesty’s annual Human…

Most people arriving in the UK by small boats across the English Channel should be considered to be refugees, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR. The statement is a direct challenge to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel who told…