South Sudan’s leadership and opposition, as well as collection of other armed groups, will engage in peace talks in the coming weeks in what has been described as the war-ravaged nation’s last best chance for peace. The east African regional…

Racism is growing on the internet with aboriginal groups and Muslims among the major victims, according to new research. The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has reported that more than a third of racial complaints in 2009-10 were concerned with…

A new project is aiming to dig out documentation and archival records to build a picture of the lives of people who were victims of the notorious ‘White Australia Policy’. In place during the late 19th and early 20th centuries,…

Iraqi migrant Nasir Ajmaya is using his own life experiences to help newcomers to Australia begin their lives here. Nasir experienced war, the impoverishing impact of international sanctions against his country and health problems before coming to Australia in 2009.…

For the past decade or so Japan’s economic growth has hovered around zero, the result of an ageing population and severe labour shortages. And while the Japanese traditionally are wary of foreigners, the nation’s leadership knows it will have to…

Australia has been urged to increase its refugee intake as global humanitarian crises ramp up and new threats to stability in Africa and Asia are identified. World Vision Australia has called for Australia to increase its regular refugee intake to…

More than fifteen hundred asylum seekers face an October 1 deadline to lodge their applications for Temporary Protection visas or Safe Haven Enterprise visas or face deportation. The federal government has given asylum seekers until that date to formally apply…

When ISIS started killing doctors and professionals and when the armed militias opposing them began demanding all of their money and possessions, Syrian medico Bashir Ahmad decided it was time to leave. As an ethnic Kurd, Bashir felt even more…

Read about the latest news, research and initiatives from migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia… UNHCR visits AMES Footscray The UNHCR’s Representative in Lebanon Ms Mireille Girard visited AMES Australia’s Footscray centre last week and met with staff and…

Seventeen Cuban refugees who were found marooned on a lighthouse off the Florida Keys last year after fleeing their homeland in a self-made boat have been resettled in Australia. Before January 2016, the men would have been automatically accepted into…

Nigerian LGBTQ activist Aderonke Apata has finally been granted asylum by Britain’s High Court after thirteen years battling to prove her sexual identity. Some African countries have prohibitive laws against homosexuality with same sex marriage currently classified as a crime…

Thousands of civilian refugees and rebel fighters who fled Syria for safety in Lebanon are being forced to return to their war-ravaged homeland. Hezbollah and other groups in control of parts of Lebanon have deemed there is now a ‘safe…