A young Ukrainian refugee has seen her dream come true after being able to travel to Italy to take part in a winter sports tournament. Fifteen-year-old junior champion speed skater Alexandra Cherkasova is taking part in the European Youth Olympic…

Ukrainian refugees in Australia have marked their first Christmas away from their homeland with events across the country, including a community camp in Sydney. Held at a Ukrainian Youth Association facility on the Colo River, at the foot of the…

Migration to Australia is expected to return to levels similar to those before the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report says. The ‘2022 Population Statement’ from the federal government’s Centre for Population says that COVID travel restriction resulted in 85,000 fewer…

Australia’s migration system needs to build social cohesion and multiculturalism, offer support to all kinds of migrants and provide clear pathways to permanency, according to migrant and refugee settlement agency AMES Australia. In a submission to the federal government’s review…

Host countries must to more to protect the human rights of migrant workers, according to a new report from the UN Human Rights Office. The report, titled “We wanted workers, but human beings came”, analysed temporary labour migration programs in…

Increasing numbers of Rohingya refugees are setting out on dangerous voyages across the Andaman Sea, according to a new report from the UN refugee agency UNHCR . From January to November 2022, 1,920 people, mostly Rohingya, travelled by sea from…

Refugees and migrants are overwhelmingly embracing Australia’s electoral process and are keen to vote in this week’s Victorian state election, a new survey has found. A survey of more than a hundred refugees and migrants who are voting for the…

Thousands of protestors have been detained and hundreds killed in a brutal crackdown by Iranian authorities, according to a new report by NGO Human Rights Watch. “Iranian authorities have ruthlessly cracked down on widespread anti-government protests with excessive and lethal force…

A peace deal signed in Ethiopia this month has brought hope for an end to the world’s deadliest conflict.  After two years of war and hundreds of thousands of deaths, a ceasefire arrangement was struck on November 2 between Ethiopia’s…

The latest cohort of seagoing asylum seekers fleeing oppression are indigenous Russians escaping conscription into the war in Ukraine. Two Russian Indigenous Siberians took to a small boat to cross the treacherous Bering Sea to avoid having to fight the…

Non-English speaking Australians are under-represented in the political life of the nation, a new report from the Scanlon Foundation argues. And the report, the latest in the Scanlon Foundation narrative series, says that the representation gap in Australia is not…

Turkey has abruptly arrested and deported hundreds of Syrian men and boys back to Syria, according to the NGO Human Rights Watch. The international non-profit group said deported Syrians had reported to its researchers that many of them were arrested…