The migrant death toll in the Mediterranean Sea has risen to 20,014 since 2014 following tragic foundering of a vessel off the coast of Libya last month, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). A statement from the IOM’s…

In an increasingly globalised world temporary migration is a fact of life; as in the notion that people across the globe are becoming more and more mobile. Last year the Shadow Minister for Home Affairs, Kristina Keneally lamented that “Australia’s…

Batool Albatat fled the first Gulf War and Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime with her family as an 11-year-old girl. Put by people smugglers aboard a leaky boat piloted by a 14-year-old boy, the family and their fellow travellers became lost…

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has penned an essay for Time magazine on the desperate plight of refugees from Syria as the conflict there appears to be entering an endgame. Ms Jolie, a long time special envoy for the Office of…

A new series of eye-catching portraits that celebrate the individuality of refugee women is creating a buzz in the art world. The collection, titled ‘Chrysalis’, is an amazing series of portraits by Greek visual artist and photographer Olga Stefatou. Ms…

A unique but disappearing community of migrant market gardening families on the western outskirts of Melbourne is the subject of a remarkable new book by Bangladeshi-Australian photographer Imran Abul Kashem. The book tells the story of the European migrants who…

A large majority of migrants and refugees new to Australia plan to become citizens and believe it is important to celebrate Australia Day, according to a new survey. Most newcomers say they plan to mark the day in some way…

A global report on human rights has focused on China accusing Beijing of “crushing” oppression at home and moving to spread its censorship to the rest of the world. The 2020 report by not-for-profit advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW)…

The Global Compact on Refugees might actually be hindering refugee resettlement, two leading academics argue. Writing in ‘The Atlantic’ magazine, the pair say that the compact’s well-meaning intention to recast refugees as an economic benefit to nations that receive them…

Refugees helping to save unique native grassland Refugee volunteers are helping to secure the future of an important and unique native grassland west of Melbourne. AMES refugee clients who are members of the Karen community in Wyndham are helping Parks…

Nations have pledged more than $US3 billion to support refugees and about 50,000 resettlement places, the United Nations refugee agency said this month at the end of a major conference on human displacement. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo…

Extreme weather, diminishing agriculture, sea erosion, and lingering dry spells have caused widespread migration within Pakistan in the past decade, new reports say. More than two million people were displaced by floods that inundated one-fifth of the country in 2010,…