Famine has been officially declared in Sudan’s North Darfur region, a region that is hosting refugees. The food shortages are worst in a camp for displaced people, which is currently home to hundreds of thousands of people.  It follows more…

Boxer and refugee athlete Cindy Ngamba has won the first-ever medal for the Refugee Olympic Team in Paris, after she claimed bronze medal in the women’s 75kg category. Originally from Cameroon, Ms Ngamba fled her home country and found refuge in…

Palwashi Aslami has an abiding passion to encourage women and girls from culturally diverse communities, especially those from her own Afghan community, to play sport. As an Under-14 girl’s soccer coach with the Barton FC club in Melbourne’s south-east she…

Princess of Champa is a stunning new stage show that brings together an ancient story of cross-cultural cohesion, peace and prosperity with a multicultural love story. The show, recently performed at Melbourne’s Capitol Theatre, has also brought together some Victoria’s…

Two recent reports from the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR paint a grim picture for refugees in coming years. The reports say around 2.9 million refugees, those at most risk, will need resettlement in 2025; and that at the end…

There is a massive divide in attitudes to race issues between supporters of President Joe Biden and those who support Donald Trump, a new study has found. A survey by the Washington-based think tank, The Pew Research Center in the…

Human rights groups and migrant and refugee advocacy agencies have reacted with concern at the US Government’s crackdown on asylum seekers seeking access to the US. US President Joe Biden recently issued an executive order curtailing asylum access and paving…

More than 2.9 million refugees worldwide will need resettlement next year, according to the UNHCR’s Projected Global Resettlement Needs 2025 report. The report’s agency, estimate represents an increase of 20 per cent – equivalent to half a million refugees –…

The recent public and media focus on gender violence is an opportunity to forge some meaningful change in promoting the prevention of gender-based violence and better supporting its victims. But when we look at responses to recent health and societal…

This month marks 50 years since the beginning of one 20th Century’s major refugee crises when large numbers of so called ‘boat people’ began to flee Indochina. In May 1974, tens of thousands of people began in large numbers to…

Migrants are more likely to have confidence in Australia’s democracy than native born Australians, a new study has found. The survey, by the Scanlon Foundation’s Research Institute, found 68 per cent of the migrant community felt democracy was working in…

Cath Scarth, CEO of AMES Australia If we know anything about Australia’s population it is that we’re growing, we are getting older and living longer; and we are more culturally and linguistically diverse than ever before. So, we need to…