A global group of city mayors has called on countries around the world to accept more refugees from Afghanistan. As the US and its allies finally exited Afghanistan after 20 years, thousands of Afghans are still attempting to flee the…

Refugees from Syria and Iraq are not being fully utilised in the Australian labour market and very few have got jobs at that are similar to the ones they left behind or commensurate with their education levels and previous employment,…

Migration is increasingly being used as a weapon by authoritarian governments seeking geopolitical advantage. Recently Belarus was accused of helping thousands of Iraqi migrants and asylum seekers to fly into its capital, Minsk, and then ushering them into Latvia, Lithuania,…

Australia’s Afghan community has called on the federal government to immediately offer humanitarian visas to 20,000 refugees from vulnerable groups in Afghanistan, including women and minorities.  Thousands of Afghans across Australia hold grave fears for family members and love ones…

After 11 years of war, upheaval and displacement, Syrians are facing the worst humanitarian conditions since the start of the crisis, with food shortages and rising prices for fuel and basic necessities. A new report from the World Food Program…

Maryam Daryos’ poems are a poignant rendering of the profound and contradictory senses of loss and hope that are at the heart of the refugee experience. Her work is even more poignant in that it was published as the prize-winning…

This week ay marks the 70th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention, an important international agreement that established the rights of people forced to flee. The Convention was a crucial component of international human rights law and remains as relevant now…

As hopes rise in the UK that the England football team might win a trophy at the 2021 Euros – it’s first since 1966 – a new exhibition highlights the impact migration has had on the sport. London’s Migration Museum…

An innovative new employment program is fast-tracking refugee jobseekers into work while also speeding up their settlement journeys and supporting them to build connections into the broader society. Hundreds of refugees have been supported into employment, even during the height…

International condemnation has followed the handing over to Libyan authorities of 270 migrants and refugees who were rescued at sea by a Gibraltar-flagged ship. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency have both said that…

The number of people forced to flee their homes because of war, violence, persecution and human rights violations has risen to 82.4 million over the past year, according to a new report from the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR. The agency…

An anti-racism taskforce is being established in Victoria to advise the state government on a strategy to address race and faith-based discrimination. The taskforce consider issues such as unconscious bias, privilege, and how race intersects with other forms of discrimination,…