In Melbourne’s northern suburbs, a new community group is quietly going about the business of supporting newly arrived refugee families from Syria. Called ‘Australian Jasmine Families’, the group’s name references the fact that the Syrian city of Damascus is called…

An artificial intelligence app that helps migrants and refugees improve their English has won the Digital Design Category of the Victorian Premier’s Design Awards 2023. The MyAMES Chat app, built in partnership with AI developer GetMee, has a particular focus…

Australia set a record for migrants arriving in the 2022-23 financial year with a net figure of 518,000 people added to the population according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. “In the year ending 30 June 2023,…

A Syrian refugee who overcame war, persecution and displacement to become a key leader and bulwark of her community is the inaugural ‘AMES Australia Woman of Impact’. Norma Medawar arrived in Australia as a refugee in 2015 seeking safety and…

A new art exhibition explores the nexus between watercolour, Australian landscapes and Chinese art traditions. The ‘The World Around Me’ by Chinese-Australian artist Aimee Li is on show in the Mackley Members’ Gallery at Victorian Artists Society in March 2024…

An Afghan refugee family have launched a new business in Melbourne selling traditional Afghan and Middle Eastern women’s clothing. The shop, called Afghan Luxury Collection’ recently opened in the Sunshine Plaza, in Melbourne’s west and is already attracting a loyal…

A poignant new exhibition in Berlin tells the story of the Kindertransport, a remarkable effort to rescue mostly Jewish children from the clutches of the Nazis in the lead up to World War II. About 10,000 children, the majority from…

Australia’s new Race Discrimination Commissioner is an Indian-origin employment lawyer with who is also chair of the Queensland Multicultural Advisory Council. Giridharan Sivaraman, who is head of law firm Maurice Blackburn’s employment law team, begins his five-year tenure with the…

A recent court ruling could be a sign of a softening of Japan’s traditionally conservative and restrictive protocols on recognising refugees. The Nagoya High Court last month ordered the Japanese government to grant refugee status to an ethnic Rohingya asylum…

As an archivist and technical officer with the Afghan Government Eshaq Yaqubi worked in a prestigious job just metres away from the office of the last elected president of Afghanistan Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. But it was that proximity to the centre…

More than 560 Rohingya refugees died or were missing after attempting dangerous boat crossings to countries in South East Asia in 2023, according to a new report from the UN refugee agency UNHCR. The figure is the highest number of deaths…

Last year saw unprecedented suppression of human rights as well as wartime atrocities and cynical transactional diplomacy that had negative impacts on vulnerable people across the globe, according to the latest annual report from NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW). In…