Migrants and refugees run around a third of all small businesses in Australia, according to a new report that challenges common perceptions that migrants can be a drain on the national economy. The ‘Migrant Small Business Report’, produced by insurance…

Grave concerns are mounting over a plan by Myanmar and Bangladesh to repatriate hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya who fled violence in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State last year. And the move is just the latest in a new trend…

Two of the United Nations’ top officials have responded to claims that aid workers have been sexually exploiting the very people they are supposed to be assisting. In an article written under the aegis of the World Economic Forum Director…

The world’s unprecedented refugee crisis has morphed into something more intractable and potentially more deadly as a record number of people face famine and starvation across the world in 2018. The rise in protracted, man-made emergencies means more than 130…

Much of the world seems to be channelling Donald Trump as it becomes less and less friendly to migrants, refugees and minority groups, according to a scan of recent news reports. A disturbing string of reports this week shows a…

At least 3000 migrants died on Mediterranean Sea routes during November, the UN’s migration arm the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has reported. Deaths of people crossing the Mediterranean since the so called ‘Lampedusa tragedy’ – a shipwreck in October…

Multiculturalism in Australia should focus less on celebrating minorities and more on inclusion, according to a new report. Researchers at Deakin University University’s Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation say a majority of Australians, including those working in the multicultural…

Adult asylum seekers in Ireland will be allowed to work, the Irish Government has announced, overturning two decades of the country’s controversial ‘direct provision’ policy. Ireland’s Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan announced the change this week acknowledging there has been increasing…

The UNHCR’s regional Representative in Australia Thomas Albrecht recently gave a briefing to refugee community groups on the global refugee crisis and moves afoot to find solutions. The talk highlighted increasing humanitarian crises in places like Myanmar, where half a…

Fruit and vegetable crops are being left to rot on British farms because of a shortage of labour blamed on last year’s Brexit vote. Britain’s National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has called the UK Government to implement a seasonal agricultural workers…

Soaring global migration is fundamentally changing how and where most people live, a new report shows. Focusing on settlement in cities, the report by the World Economic Forum, identified housing, healthcare, education and employment as the critical areas for successful…

After years of fighting, Islamic State has finally been driven out of the city of Raqqa, its main stronghold in Syria. But the victory over IS has produced little cheer because Raqqa is now a ghost town, reduced to rubble and…