Around 216 million people will become climate migrants by 20-50 unless there is concrete action on global warming, according to a new report from the World Bank. The bank’s Groundswell II report says this migration will be spread over six…

A Syrian refugee artist living in the UK has produced a haunting and visceral series of images that capture the human sorrow and trauma of a decade of war has wrought in his homeland. Dr Ammar Azzouz is a UK-based…

Afghan refugee evacuees equivalent to the population of a medium-sized Victorian town have been supported to settle in Victoria since the Taliban seized control of the beleaguered nation in August. Since the end of August, migrant and refugee settlement agency…

A recently arrived Afghan evacuee couple is writing a book on his experiences as the Taliban took control of the capital Kabul and he was forced to flee with his family. Civil engineer Fahim Farhang and his wife Bibi Sharifa…

Afghans fleeing to neighbouring countries to avoid the brutal Taliban regime are facing escalating risks, the UN refugee agency UNHCR has warned. The warning comes as the humanitarian and security situation within Afghanistan continues to deteriorate. St the moment, Afghanistan’s…

A damning new report has found the UK’s asylum and immigration systems exacerbate trauma suffered by asylum seeker and refugee women and girls seeking refuge in Britain. The report by the University of Birmingham found that over 40 million women…

Taliban forces in Afghanistan have murdered or forcibly disappeared more than a thousand former police and intelligence officers in just four provinces, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch. The report, from the New York-based NGO says the…

Pope Francis has slammed Europe over closed borders and the migrant and refugee crisis. After a visit to Lesbos, the Greek island at the centre of Europe’s refugee crisis for a decade, to offer comfort to asylum seekers, he had…

The US has sent the first migrants back to Mexico under the reinstated ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy. The Trump-era policy makes asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in US immigration court. The UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said the two migrants…

A new film by Afghanistani photojournalist, filmmaker and AMES Australia media co-ordinator Barat Ali Batoor has won a major award at this year’s Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. The film ‘Batoor: A Refugee Journey’ that chronicles an asylum seeker boat journey…

The world has seen a dramatic increase in internal displacement due to disasters, conflict, persecution and violence at a time when global mobility has been almost completely halted because of COVID-19 travel restrictions. And COVID-related border closures and mobility restrictions…