Australia’s Armenian community is rallying to support around 120,000 of their compatriots who have become refugees fleeing the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. The Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh – a territory internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but previously beyond its control…

More than half of the world’s 14.8 million school-aged refugee children are currently missing out on schooling, according to a new report by the UN’s refugee agency The 2023 UNHCR Refugee Education Report says that more than seven million refugee…

Almost half of migrant and refugee women have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace over the past five years, a new study has found. Many are being harassed by their senior colleagues and many feel under pressure not to report…

In the past few months Italy has undergone a quiet transformation in its approach to migration. Before becoming Italy’s Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni was one of the most strident voices on migration in the European Union. In opposition politician, she…

A new suicide prevention app has the potential to save lives in multicultural communities, its creators say. The ‘Prevent a Suicide: What to say’ app produced by the Australian Suicide Prevention Foundation (ASPF) will have a translation function to help people…

Australia has taken on the lead role in the annual United Nations refugee resettlement consultation gathering in Geneva. Australia is the new chair of the Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement (ATCR), which has been renamed the ‘Consultations on Resettlement and…

More Australians feel safe than did last year, their belief in democracy remains strong and they remain relatively hopeful about Australia’s economic outlook. And support for the nation’s migration program remains high but three years of global turmoil have left…

The intersection between migration and the vocational and higher education sectors will be key in providing the skills Australia will need into the future, a major conference has heard. The Director of Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) Professor Peter Dawkins…

More than 69,000 refugees and migrants were supported to voluntarily return home last year by the UN’s migration agency IOM – a 39 per cent increase on the previous year, a new report reveals. IOM’s latest ‘2022 Return and Reintegration’…

Thousands of Syrians who had sought refuge in Lebanon because of the conflict in their homeland – including unaccompanied children – are being rounded up by the Lebanese army and deported back to Syria, advocacy groups say. The deportations putting…

The United States’ refugee intake is on the rise again after it hit a historical low during the administration of President Donald Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report reveals. The report, from the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute, shows…

When her homeland invaded Ukraine in 2022, Russian-Australian woman Victoria’s world was rocked. She was devastated and revolted by the brutal attacks on innocent Ukrainians unleashed by Vladimir Putin through his euphemistically-named ‘special military operation’. But Victoria was able find…