Global remittance flows, or money sent home by emigrants living overseas, are expected to increase by 4.2 percent this year to reach $US630 billion, according to a new report from the World Bank. This follows an almost record recovery of…

Australian companies need more directors from diverse backgrounds on their boards to drive innovation and creativity, according to a leading lawyer and corporate figure. Katrina Rathie, the former head of law firm King and Wood Mallesons, said that there was…

From a small news room and studio in suburban Melbourne a group of exiled Burmese journalists is beaming news, interviews, information as well as hope and encouragement back to the people of their beleaguered homeland. The group of four are…

In the maelstrom that was the evacuation of at risk civilians from Kabul as the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, more than few remarkable stories emerged. One of them concerned the musicians of the Afghan National Institute of Music, who…

Syrians refugees exiled in camps in Iraq and Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East are struggling to survive as a global economic crisis emerges alongside food shortages driven by the war in Ukraine. Iraq hosts nearly 260,000 Syrian refugees,…

The war in Ukraine and other conflicts across the globe have pushed the number of people fleeing war, violence and persecution to more than 100 million for the first time in history, according to the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR. UN…

A new report outlines the growth of religious persecution across the globe with millions of people suffering persecution or violence because of their faiths or religious beliefs. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has released the ‘Global…

Turkey has said it will send a million Syrian refugees back to their war-ravaged homeland, as their presence emerges as a political issue in the upcoming national elections. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to return the Syrians as…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is creating a food crisis that could amount to a human catastrophe, according to the President of the World Bank, David Malpass. Mr Malpass, the head of the institution which exists to alleviate global poverty, said…

Ethiopia has launched a national dialogue process aimed at stopping the devastating civil war and bridging the country’s ethnic and political fault lines that have created an 18 month conflict. A commission established in December has been tasked with overseeing…

As many as 70 per cent of women and children forced from their countries as refugees experience sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), according to new international research. The study, involving the University of Melbourne, found many of the women and…

When Afghan evacuee ‘Abdul’ and his family moved into his first Australian home in a quiet street in Glenroy, in Melbourne’s north, he was not expecting the welcome he received. The residents of the street – themselves mostly migrants, or…