Moved by the images of the body of three-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach in 2014, the then Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced Australia would accept an extra 12,000 refugees from Syrian and Iraq…

The US has announced a new program to allow groups of private citizens to sponsor Afghan refugees to resettle in America. The Biden administration has brought more than 65,000 Afghans to military bases across the country after the evacuation airlift…

Nobel Prize for Literature winner Abdulrazak Gurnah has used publicity around his award to criticise the “lack of compassion” of governments that treat migrants as a problem or a threat. Mr Gurnah grew up on the island of Zanzibar, now…

Migrant crossing of the English Channel are on the rise and may surge even further following the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. French maritime authorities say there have been 556 ‘operations’ involving 12,148 migrants attempting to cross or crossing the Channel…

Rising UK tennis star Emma Raducanu’s surprise win in the US Open singles final has sparked a fresh conversation around multiculturalism in Britain. Ms Raducanu was born in Toronto to a Chinese mother and a Romanian father. She moved to…

Nations that oppress women and girls are far more likely to be violent and unstable, according to an analysis by The Economist magazine. All of the 20 most fragile states in the world practice polygamy, including Guinea, where a coup…

The recent Olympics in Tokyo brought back memories of one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of Australia’s migration program. It was 1956, and as the Hungarian Olympic team was heading to Melbourne for the games, the Soviet…

The Victorian Government is rolling out new funding to support diverse communities to stop family violence. The government’s strategy is to work with multicultural and faith communities to promote equal, respectful relationships while also funding measures to stop family violence…

A new report has condemned the “horrific violations” being committed against migrants returned to Libya with the cooperation of European states after trying to cross the Mediterranean. The report by human rights NGO Amnesty International says that new evidence had…

Climate change is dramatically impacting people’s lives across the globe but when natural disasters or droughts force them to leave their countries, they often find closed borders and no assistance. It is clear climate migrants don’t fit into the widely…

Increasing numbers of countries are including refugees and migrants in their national COVID-19 vaccination plans, but a new report reveals there are still barriers to equitable access. A new report by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent…