Displaced and refugee women are at increasing risk of gender-based violence because the global economic crisis, the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR says. The agency says worsening socio-economic conditions, new and ongoing conflicts and humanitarian funding shortfalls are contributing to the…

In the global south, extreme climate change will push vast numbers of people from their homes, with large regions becoming uninhabitable; in the developed world, economies will struggle to survive demographic changes with massive workforce shortages and an impoverished elderly…

Social cohesion in Australia is at a tipping point with levels of national pride and belonging dipping after they rose during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is also a rising sense of economic and social inequality but support for immigration and…

Almost 17,000 new citizens will be voting in Australia for the first time in the 2022 Victorian state election and about 90,000 will be voting in their first state election, data from the Victorian Election Commission shows. Many of the…

Australia is among the most popular migration destinations for wealthy people, according to a new report from Washington-based think tank the Migration Policy Institute. Around 3,500 high-net-worth individuals arrived in Australia in 2022, the report said. It said that wealthy…

Refugees and displaced persons should have a full voice at the next global meeting on climate change, the United Nations refugee agency says. As the COP27 meeting in Egypt wrapped up, the UNHCR’s special advisor on climate action Andrew Harper…

Young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds were among the most negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, a new study has found. The latest Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) report shows the COVID-19 pandemic held young Australians back…

The number of people forcibly displaced globally surged to 103 million in the first half 2022, according to the latest data from the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR. The UNHCR’s ‘2022 Mid-Year Trends’ report looks at numbers and cohorts of people…

The 2022-23 federal budget has some positive measures for Australia’s multicultural communities but there are also significant financial challenges ahead for all of the nation’s most vulnerable people. The budget was delivered amid a double dilemma of rising in inflation,…

Global internet freedom has declined for the twelfth successive year, according to a new report from the NGO Freedom House. The report, titled ‘Countering an Authoritarian Overhaul of the Internet’, revealed the biggest downgrades were documented in Russia, Myanmar, Sudan,…

The influx of Ukrainian refugees to Germany has pushed the country’s population to a new all-time high of more than 84 million, the German Federal Statistical Office has revealed. By the end of June, the country’s population had increased by…

Access to education for displaced refugees is very limited compared to the general populations in their host countries, a new report from the UN refugee agency UNHCR has found. Titled ‘All Inclusive: The Campaign for Refugee Education’, the report found…