A poet, writer and TV presenter with a deep commitment to her community has won the Melbourne Afghan community’s peak women’s award. Shugoofa Bakhtary is the 2022 Bakhtar Women of the Year, an award which acknowledges her “exceptional contribution, achievement,…

A new creative initiative to build awareness of the need the combat domestic and family violence in Australia’s Korean community has recently launched. ‘The Ari Project’ is a creative rendering of messages around preventing violence against women in the context…

A campaign has been launched to have charges dropped against an Italian mayor who opened up his community to refugees and asylum seekers at the height of Europe’s migrant crisis. Domenico Lucano was the mayor of Riace, a village of…

Britain’s High Court has ruled that the UK Home Office’s practice of confiscating the phones of asylum seekers is unlawful. Reports from the UK say the Home Office has implemented a secret policy of seizing phones belonging to asylum seekers…

The war in Ukraine could set off a devastating food crisis across some of the most disadvantaged parts of the globe, according to a raft of new reports. Separate reports from the United Nations, the Norwegian Refugee Council, the International…

Posing as a stationery salesman and wearing down at heel, provincial clothing Afghan refugee ‘Ahmed’ made a daring escape into Pakistan under the noses of the Taliban. As a senior Afghan government official, he faced prison or worse if he…

A longstanding offer from New Zealand to resettle up to 150 asylum seekers in Australia’s offshore detention centres has been accepted in principle. If a deal is struck, it means asylum seekers, some who have been held indefinitely in limbo…

Europe could be plunged into a massive refugee crisis with millions of Ukrainians made homeless if Russia invades the former eastern-bloc nation, western nations have warned. In the US, the Biden administration has said that a large-scale Russian invasion could…

As the possibility of war looms over Ukraine with Russian forces gathered on its border, the nation is already suffering a dire humanitarian crisis. And a new United Nations report says any attack by Russia will severely worsen the situation.…

Professionally qualified refugees in the US find it harder to get work the longer they have lived in the country, a new study has found. The employment trend research by Cornell University found that despite receiving lawful permanent resident status,…

The activist group Human Rights Watch has released its annual report taking at a swipe at the rise of autocratic governments across the globe but also offering hope in the rise of popular movements pushing for democracy.     In an…

Indonesia’s influential Jakarta Post newspaper has called on the nation to sign the 1951 Refugee Convention and embrace the thousands of asylum seekers and refugees who have landed on its shores over the past decade. The paper points out that…