Afghan refugee Ali Amini has found safety, a community and a new place to call home since arriving in Australia in August 2024. The only thing missing is a job in his chosen profession. Ali, 37, is an experienced Geographic…

The fall of the Al-Assad regime in Syria has triggered a humanitarian crisis in the northwest of the country, according to the UN’s migration agency IOM. IOM is urgently appealing for $US30 million to assist almost 700,000 people in northwest…

The federal government has announced a new temporary visa designed to attract and retain skilled workers and fill the nation’s critical labour shortages. The Skills in Demand (SID) visa came into effect this month, replacing the Temporary Skills Shortage (TSS)…

A refugee family facing significant and multiple barriers to settlement have been supported to build happy, successful lives in Adelaide thanks to a collaboration between humanitarian settlement and NDIS services.   Afghan refugee and single parent Zobeideh Ramezani arrived in…

Afghan refugee Narges Hazareh is following her dream of establishing a career in art. Narges was born and raised in Afghanistan but found her love for art at an early age when she was a refugee in Iran. Now living…

A Taliban plan to return millions of internally displaced Afghans to their home villages and provinces could worsen the country’s humanitarian crisis, aid organisations say. The Taliban’s Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation announced the plan recently, saying that in phase,…

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine reaches the thousand-day mark, a new report has revealed the scale of the humanitarian crisis the conflict has wrought. The report from the UN’s migration agency IOM says that more than 14.6 million people…

The UN’s migration agency IOM has called for migration to be included among suite of solutions to climate change. Speaking at the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP29), the International Organisation for Migration Director Amy Pope called…

Archie Thompson says football brings people and communities together. And the former Socceroo has some personal evidence for his assertion. He was born in Papua New Guinea to a New Zealand father and a local mother. He grew up in…

Israel’s military offensive in Lebanon has forced more than a million people from their homes, including hundreds of thousands of Syrians, who fled conflict in their own country after 2014. The Syrians were already among the most vulnerable communities in…

First-time arrivals and applications of people seeking asylum in the EU have declined dramatically in recent months, a new report reveals. The report, from the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat, says asylum applications have dropped 17 per cent over the northern…

The US has committed to taking in 125,000 refugees over the next financial year, the White House says. President Biden has recently signed the Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2025. The document again set the refugee admissions…