The African Union is creating a new body to oversee humanitarian responses and policy on the continent in a bid to localise the humanitarian relief system. From October, the African Union (AU) – a continental forum of 55 states –…

Two years after more than half a million Rohingya people were violently driven from their homes in Myanmar, things have not improved. The displacement crisis in Rakhine state has deepened into a long-term refugee emergency with a million people now…

Rohingya refugee Habiburahman fled repression and torture in his homeland and eventually found safety and a new life in Australia. But he continues to advocate for the hundreds of thousands of his compatriots living in limbo in Bangladesh refugee camps…

Hundreds of thousands of migrants across the European Union are being rejected in their bids for protection creating a new crisis because tricky logistical and political reasons mean few are being sent home. As the cases crawl through Europe’s court…

Construction of Bendigo’s once controversial Islamic Community Centre and mosque has begun more than ten years after being first proposed and in the wake of protests dubbed ‘racist’. Attending the sod breaking ceremony last week Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said…

A row has broken out over plans to change the name of Melbourne’s iconic Immigration Museum. The name change was quietly revealed in April in a media release about a tattoo exhibition at the museum. But the row erupted in…

The effects climate change and extreme weather events are having in degrading traditional landscapes and the livelihoods of entire communities has been mapped for the first time to study the impact these factors have on human migration and population displacement.…

The polarisation of the migration debate in the US came into stark relief this week. President Donald Trump took his anti-immigrant policies to new levels with a sweeping ban on asylum-seekers while also launching twitter attacks on four female Democrats…

The island of Cyprus has become the latest migrant hotspot in the Mediterranean. As the European Commission says arrivals of asylum seekers in the wider eastern Mediterranean are down by 90 per cent compared with 2017, Cyprus’ geographic position –…

For the first time since the 1920s a German politician has been murdered by a racist right-wing extremist. Last month a neo-Nazi with a history of violence against immigrants gunned down Walter Lubcke, the District President of Kassel, in central…

Almost 1600 children have died while migrating from their homes over the past four years as they fled war, persecution, famine or extreme poverty, a new report has revealed. Then UN migration agency IOM released its ‘Fatal Journeys’ report just…

Refugees who have come to Australia as a result of the conflict in Syria and Iraq are overwhelmingly happy, and feel safe and welcome, according to the first survey of settlement outcomes for this group of new arrivals. And the…