The children of ISIS fighters freed from squalid detention camps are thriving, successfully reintegrating and building new lives in their home countries, a new study has found. The study, by NGO Human Rights Watch, comes as controversy rages in Australia…

Australia’s refugee and migrant programs have returned to near capacity since the end of the COVID-19 border closures, a new report reveals. The latest Social Impact Report from migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia shows almost 8,000 refugees, including…

Digital technology is playing a key role in reviving refugee and asylum programs in the wake of COVID-19 lockdowns, a new study has found. The report, titled ‘Rebooting the Asylum System? The Role of Digital Tools in International Protection’, produced…

The global population is projected to reach eight billion this month and it will peak at 104 billion in the 2080s, according to a new report from the United Nations. The World Population Prospects 2022 report also projects that India…

A new album captures the songs and music of migrants travelling the Balkans route seeking safety in Europe after fleeing war and persecution in the Middle East. ‘The Balkan Route’, produced by No Borders Music has collected, eight haunting pieces…

Afghan businessman Khalilullah Dydar is a two time refugee. As a boy and a member of Hazara ethnic minority he fled the rise to power of the Taliban in his homeland in the 1990s. But his new life in Ukraine…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The federal government has vowed to reduce Australia’s visa backlog to make sure the nation remains competitive in the global skills market. And immigration minister Andrew Giles says the government had already made progress in tackling what he called “massive”…