A Ukrainian refugee couple have created a world-first artificial intelligence tool that enriches the lives of disabled people by giving them therapeutic virtual reality experiences. Petro Zghirin and Maryna Kuhai fled their home city of Odessa when the Russians attacked.…

The European Union has struck an agreement on how member states will handle a sudden increase in the number of people seeking asylum in the event of war, natural disaster or climate emergency. The new protocols will permit frontline states…

A refugee from war-torn Lebanon narrowly escaped death when he was hit by a stray bullet on the streets of Sydney. Ramadan Osman was collateral damage in Sydney’s gangland war when, as an innocent bystander, he was hit in the…

Almost 120 newly arrived asylum seeker and refugee families across Melbourne have received crucial material goods for their children in the past year, thanks to a remarkable volunteer community group. St Kilda Mums, a not-for-profit organisation, re-homes new and pre-loved…

Migrants in Australia are participating well in Australian society with high levels of English language proficiency, citizenship, employment and business ownership, according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data for 2021 also showed high levels of…

Pope Francis has hit out at rising nationalism in Europe, saying it is leading to the deaths of thousands of migrants. The Pope condemned what he called “belligerent nationalism” and called for a concerted European-wide response to migration to prevent…

The UK’s opposition Labour Party has set out its immigration policy ahead of the 2025 general election saying it will speed up the processing of asylum applications and move asylum seekers out of hotels. It has also pledged to end…

A new study on perceptions of racism in the US has found Americans are divided over whether racial discrimination is scourge that is overlooked or people see it where it doesn’t exist. To mark that 60th anniversary of the March…

Terminology, racism and discrimination and systemic barriers are among the issues being examined by a new review into Australia’s multicultural framework. Set up by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles, the review chaired by former SBS chair Dr Hass Dellal, has been…

Adiba Ganji says she represents the women of Afghanistan who have had their basic human rights taken away by the Taliban. Speaking at the recent Refugee Communities Association of Australia (RCAA) conference in Melbourne, Adiba, a member of the Afghan…

Global net-migration patterns are more strongly linked with socio-economic factors rather than climate change, according to new research. The researchers, from Aalto University, Finland, and the University of Bologna, Italy, took birth and death data from 216 countries or sovereign states…

The numbers of people displaced by the civil war in Sudan has nearly doubled since the start of the conflict, according to new data from the UN’ migration agency the International Organisation for Migration’s (IOM) IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM)…