A record 61 million people were displaced within their own countries last year as result of conflict or natural disaster, a new report from the United Nations reveals. The number represents a 60 per cent rise on the previous year…

It’s a slow-burn global movement that was recently manifest locally on the steps of Victoria’s Parliament House. A democracy push by Iranian exiles envisages the country’s exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi as the key to a return to secular freedom…

Hundreds of Rohingya refugees have reached Indonesia since November last year as they escape increasingly desperate conditions in camps in Bangladesh and continued repression in Myanmar. Since November last year, Indonesia has registered 918 Rohingya who reached Aceh, its westernmost…

Asylum seekers applying for refugee status in Australia feel let down by bureaucracy, with some driven to self-harm, a new study has found. The study by researchers from Murdoch University and University of South Australia found the visa process appeared…

Twelve years after conflict devastated their country, Syrian refugees face deepening debt and hunger, a new report says. As their displacement drags on and host countries struggle with multiple crises, Syrian refugees in the Middle East are slipping further into…

When her homeland was invaded by Russia in February 2022, Ukrainian-born doctor Oksana Nesterenko did the only thing she could think of to support her compatriots. She offered free medical care to Ukrainians arriving in Melbourne after fleeing the conflict.…

As the Syrian civil war raged around them the children of Aleppo found solace in a simple card game. The game of Tabbeh, played with cards that came in packets of chewing gum, gave them an escape from the bombings,…

“My journey started on a boat. I spent a year in a refugee camp and somehow I ended up here on Hollywood’s biggest stage.” These were words used by former refugee Ke Huy Quan in his Oscar acceptance speech on…

Sport and politics have long been uncomfortable bedfellows. From the 1936 Berlin Games to apartheid era cricket and rugby matches and to the boycott of the Moscow Olympics, the intersection of sport and political causes have always generated passionate emotions.…

The Australian Human Rights Commission has put forward a proposal for a Human Rights Act which would consolidate human rights protections under a single framework. The Commission says Australia is the only liberal democracy in the world without a national…

The British government’s controversial plan to block undocumented migrants from entering the country on small boats has sparked a heated debate that could determine the result of the UK’s next general election. British Home Secretary Suella Braverman introduced an illegal…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned increasing numbers of much needed health workers are being recruited by rich and middle income countries from poorer nations. Fifty-five countries now rank below the global median in terms of their density of…