Rock legend Elton John has spoken out against UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s calls to ban LGBTQ+ asylum seekers from coming to the UK. Ms Braverman faced a backlash after her comment that “simply being gay, or a woman” is…

The federal government’s recently released employment white paper is good news for marginalised jobseekers, including people newly arrived in the country, will benefit from the proposed reforms. The white paper, titled ‘Working Future’, sets out five key areas for reform.…

Australia is an iconic example of multiculturalism that values migrants and refugees for more than just the labour assets and skills they bring to the country, a leading international human rights leader says. Dr Gopal Krishna Siwakoti, head of the…

Record numbers of child migrants are on the move through Latin America and the Caribbean facing dangerous journeys, violence, exploitation and abuse, a new UN report says. The child migrants have been driven from their homes by gang violence, instability,…

New York City is struggling to cope with the demand of supporting tens of thousands of asylum seekers who have arrived in the city. The city’s mayor Eric Adams has called for federal government assistance with 57,200 asylum seekers currently…

A group of Afghans who worked with Australian troops and diplomats during the 20-year conflict in their homeland have made a 700km trek to Canberra, braving rain and cold, to call on the federal government to repatriate more stranded Afghan…

Newly arrived migrants and refugees in Australia are largely unaware and confused about the proposal to create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, a new survey has found. An overwhelming majority of newcomers know little about The Voice proposal or the…

Millions of people in the world’s largest refugee camps are facing a hunger crisis as aid agencies struggle to provide enough nutrition and food. And the situation could yet worsen as grain supplies from Ukraine are again blocked by Russian…

Disputes over migration and its political weaponisation is as old as the human race, a new research paper claims. Researcher Deborah Barsky says that globalisation in the modern context, including large-scale migrations and the modern notion of the “state,” traces…

Asylum applications in the European Union hit almost a million in 2022, the highest level in six years, according to a new report from the European Union Agency for Asylum. Among the 996,000 applicants seeking protection in Europe are large…

Almost three million people have been displaced by the conflict in Sudan, in less than three months. The UN’s migration agency IOM says that as well as more than 2.2 million internally displaced people (IDPs), nearly 700,000 others have fled…

Migrants and refugees living in some of the world’s wealthiest countries are faring better in areas like education, jobs and integration than they were a decade ago, according to a new report by the Paris-based OECD. The report says the…