Australia’s leading human rights officials have marked Holocaust Remembrance Day as antisemitism and xenophobia is on the rise across the world. The President of the Australian Human Rights Commission Hugh de Kretser, Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman and Human Rights…

The head of the UN’s migration agency has unveiled a bold plan to redesign the global migration system to benefit would be migrants as well as economies and nations with skill shortages. In a recent article, Amy Pope, head of…

An Afghan woman living in Australia has called on the international community to support the women of Afghanistan whose rights and access to education and employment have been erased under the extremist Taliban regime. Parwana Amini has been calling Australia…

Impact magazine asked a group of people from diverse backgrounds to reflect on what Australia Day means to them…   Norma Medawar is a refugee from Syria. She recently became an Australian citizen. I arrived in Australia in 2015 as…

A legal impasse over a group of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers who arrived on the British Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia three years ago has ended with the group being allowed to enter the UK. The Tamils arrived…

Refugees are overwhelmingly settling well in Australia with increasing rates of employment rates and English language over the past decade, according to a landmark study into humanitarian settlement outcomes in Australia. The ‘Building a New Life in Australia’ (BNLA) study…

Unprecedented numbers of conflicts are currently afflicting the world, driving human displacement and humanitarian crises. Many people would think that the world’s most turbulent and violent times are behind us – nearly 80 years after the end of the Second…

The first child born among the Afghan refugees airlifted out of danger following the Taliban’s dramatic seizure of power in the country in 2021 has turned three. Ibrahim was born prematurely but safely in Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital in September…

A new multicultural foundation has been established in Melbourne to promote opportunity and provide resources, support, and advocacy for multicultural communities in Australia. The ‘Bruce Wong Foundation’ is “dedicated to advancing a fair and equitable Australia by addressing and removing…

Spain is set to legalise up to 300,000 undocumented migrants each year for the next three years in a bid to support its economy and tackle an aging population. The initiative aims to expand the country’s workforce and allow foreigners…

The number of forcibly displaced people across the globe has reached 123 million with ongoing conflicts in Lebanon, Sudan and elsewhere driving rising displacement, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR. The displacement figure is the highest in history and…

Israel’s move to effectively end the work of the UN relief agency UNRWA in Gaza will have dire humanitarian consequences, the UN’s children’s agency has warned. “Israeli legislation to shut down the main lifeline for Palestinian refugees in Gaza will…