For Iraqi refugee Naseer Zakaria and his family just two hours meant the difference between freedom and slavery or death. As ISIS fighters approached his home city of Qaraqosh, in northern Iraq, Naseer ignored the promises of the extremist group…

As a young child Hamdi Ubeed was taken from her family by an ‘aunt’ who promised to remove her from the dangers of the then raging Somalian civil war. The ‘aunt’ – a distant relative of her father – and…

With more than three million people displaced and almost twenty million in need of protection or material assistance, the civil war in Yemen has become the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. Since 2015, of the 3.3 million people who have been…

The dire living conditions of persecuted Rohingya in Western Myanmar have been revealed by an Australian photographer who visited internally displaced peoples’ camps in the region. In 2016, Alister McKeith (also known as Ali MC) travelled to camps in both…

Refugees and migrants from West Africa are being bought and sold openly in modern-day slave markets in Libya, a UN agency has claimed. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says it has been told by survivors that the barbaric trade…

The average Victorian is a female in her late 30s and – for the first time – with one parent born overseas, according to the 2016 census data. The data also shows that Indians are the largest groups of migrants…

Victoria is leading the nation in population growth with migrants from overseas and interstate arriving in the greatest numbers ever seen, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data. And, whether it’s a result, or a driver, of…

Australia is close to resettling the 12,000 refugees from the conflict in Syria and Iraq it committed to urgently accepting more than a year ago, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said. The Prime Minister said all 12,000 visas have been…

Somali-born refugee Omar Elmi has dreams that belie his tender years. The 17-year-old is studying horticulture and is the first Somali-born trainee taken on by Parks Victoria. As part of his Year 12 course at The Grange College in Hoppers…

Multicultural groups have largely approved of the federal government’s recent ‘multicultural statement’, which for the first time cites “integration” as the corner stone of the national identity and social unity. The statement by Malcolm Turnbull to parliament on March 20…

Refugees from LGBTI backgrounds are increasingly facing discrimination and overwrought bureaucracy in host countries, advocacy groups claim. In the US people facing anti-LGBT persecution in their home country have for the past 25 years been able to seek asylum but…

A computer program dubbed ‘the robot lawyer’ is giving free legal aid to refugees seeking asylum in the US, Canada and the UK. The program, a ‘chatbot’ which allows conversations via voice or text, was the brainchild of Stanford University…