Victorian businesses, community groups and individuals have come out in droves to support newly arrived Afghan refugees who were evacuated from Kabul last month with offers clothing, food, and other help, according to refugee settlement agency AMES Australia. Almost 5…

Afghani women ‘Amina’* is an unlikely superhero. The diminutive, bespectacled Hazara woman brought her three children out of Afghanistan and to safety in Australia despite not having complete visas documents and while being on a Taliban hit list. As the…

Thousands of Afghan refugees living in limbo in Indonesia face an even more precarious future after the Taliban’s rise to power in their homeland. Most of the 13,000 refugees in Indonesia are ethnic Hazara refugees have fled persecution and violence…

A group of former US Presidents have come together in an unprecedented bipartisan move to support Afghan refugees resettling in America. Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama — along with former first-ladies Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush…

The Australian Human Rights Commission has called the Australian Government to consider expanding Australia’s refugee resettlement program with a specific Afghan intake. The Australia Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has expressed “serious concerns” about human rights in Afghanistan and the effect…

Repressive authoritarian regimes are increasingly resorting to trans-national kidnappings and killings to preserve their power and suppress opposition and criticism at home, according to a new report. Human Rights group Freedom House have released a report that has catalogued 608…

On her epic refugee journey Iraqi woman Wafaa Razooqi has twice beaten cancer, endured the death of her husband and survived the invasion of her home town by extremist ISIS fighters. Wafaa and her family made a difficult and dangerous…

A refugee family with three children with disabilities have been supported to settle in Melbourne after a rocky start to their life in Australia. Salam Mardali and Wasan Jabbo and their four children arrived in Australia in November 2019 settling…

A raft of new reports has exposed the extent of homelessness among diverse communities. The last ABS Census estimate that 15 per cent of the homeless population are migrants who arrived in the past five years, more than three times…

A Syrian swimmer who dived into the water to help steer a broken down refugee boat and runner who escaped conflict by crossing a dessert on foot. These two unassuming athletes – Yusra Mardini and Tachlowini Gabriyesos – were the…

A group of Republican controlled US states are sending police and national guardsmen to the US-Mexico border sparking criticism from the leaders of migrant communities. The governors of Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Nebraska, Ohio and South Dakota have all committed to…

Australia’s migrant small businesses will be key to Australia’s recovery from the economic and social recovery from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a raft of new data shows. Small businesses contributed almost $418 billion to Australia’s GDP in 2018-19,…