Meena Naidu, General Manager Education and Participation | AMES Australia In Australia today, like the proverbial chameleon in the crowd, there is an issue and its solution hiding in plain sight. Migrants and refugees are struggling to get jobs that…

Sudan’s ongoing civil war has quietly become the world’s worst and most under-reported humanitarian crisis.  The conflict in the African country has created the world’s largest and fastest-growing displacement, yet this crisis has been overshadowed by events in Gaza and…

An Australian Government funded scheme to help displaced refugees get jobs in third countries has been launched by the UN’s refugee and migration agencies. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, have launched a pioneering…

By Katerina Hatzi Trump’s recent “One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)” will negatively impact refugees and migrants, according to leading US immigration and refugee service Global Refuge. The bill, signed on July 4, dramatically increases “federal spending on detention, deportation,…

Supporting vulnerable refugees, advocating for, and building the capacity of grass roots refugee communities is the mission of a new not-for-profit organisation. The RCAA Foundation is a refugee driven organisation that also aims to give refugees with lived experience a…

A migrant’s epic journey through life, love, music, drama and teaching is revealed in a new book. Armenian-Australian Peter Jerijian has traced his life from Lebanon to London and on to Melbourne via South Korea in his memoir ‘Bouncing Back’.…

A stunning and thoughtful new film demolishes the preconceptions and prejudices inherent in current debates about migration. Across the western world, there are narratives, often prosecuted by far-right governments or groups, that paint refugees as economic migrants looking for the…

Hafiz Jan is the first refugee to become an advisor in federal politics in Australia. The 30-year-old from Afghanistan is Chief of Staff to Cassandra Fernando, MP, the member for the electorate of Holt, in Melbourne’s south-east. Amazingly, Hafiz arrived…

In just 130 days in office, President Trump has laid waste to much of the US’ and the worlds’ humanitarian arrangements and infrastructure. He has effectively pulled up America’s welcome mat for the first time since the Statue of Liberty…

Opinion – Vanda Fortunato, Chair AMES Australia In the aftermath of Labor’s decisive election victory, there has been much commentary about how the government now has a mandate, and the moral authority, to push through generation-defining reform in areas such…

Hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity are on the rise across the globe for the sixth consecutive year, according to a new United Nations report. The ‘Global Report on Food Crises’ (GRFC), produced by the Global Network Against Food Crises, says…

Australia continues to host the world’s largest per capita number of permanent migrants in the world with 7.7 million, or 30.14 per cent, according to a new report. The ‘World Population Review’ report, based on United Nations data, found that…