The National Disability Insurance Scheme Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is too complex and too inflexible for many people from diverse backgrounds, multicultural agencies say. And disability support agencies say stigma around disability must also be addressed if CALD participation rates within the…

Afghan community leader and restauranteur Homaira Mershedi has marshalled friends and community members to support recently arrived Afghan refugees with donations of food and clothing. They have also been raising money to support vulnerable people still in Afghanistan. Thousands of…

Looming economic and food crises in Afghanistan could create fresh flows of refugees in the region, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has warned. UNHCR says the world should urgently provide promised aid to Afghanistan, citing a lack of resources…

The Afghan women’s soccer team should currently be competing in Asian Cup qualifiers taking on other national teams from Central Asia and the Middle East. Instead, they have fled their country and sought safety across the world as part of…

The UK is increasingly privatising its immigration and border arrangements drawing criticism from migrant and refugee advocates that corporate players are profiting at the expense of human rights. Travel agents, airlines, IT, surveillance and service companies are among dozens contracted…

Denmark’s former immigration minister lnger Stojeberg is being impeached over her allegedly racist and xenophobic policies while in office. During Stojeberg’s term as Minister for Immigration, Integration and Housing from 2015 to 2019, she imposed more than a hundred new…

Images of thousands of Afghans desperately trying to flee their country through Kabul’s international airport sparked an international outcry. And as the US and its allies, including Australia, completed their operations to evacuate people from Kabul, the question remains: what…

More children than ever are becoming migrants or displaced people, according to a new report by the UN children’s agency UNICEF. Around 35.5 million boys and girls were living outside their country of birth in 2020 and another 23.3 million…

Increasing numbers of Chinese are fleeing their homeland and seeking asylum overseas, according to new data from the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR. Between 2012 and 2020, the annual number of asylum-seekers from China rose from 15,362 to 107,864, the data…

Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is the latest athlete to seek asylum and protection while competing at an Olympics. The runner refused to return to Belarus from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and has sought diplomatic protection Ms Tsimanouskaya dodged an attempt…

Mustafa Ayobi arrived as a refugee from Afghanistan as an 18-year old with no English, little formal education and knowing no one outside his immediate family. This month, after 12 long and difficult years of work and study, Mustafa fulfilled…

Refugee medico reclaims his career Iraqi refugee doctor and former AMES client Dr Asseel Yako has realised a four year dream of being able to resume his career as a specialist physician in Australia after fleeing the conflict in his…