A new virtual photo exhibition explores the plight and resilience of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in the world’s largest refugee camp through the lens of Rohingya photographers. Almost a million Rohingya Muslim refugees live in the Cox’s Bazar area of…

Millions of refugees and migrants across the world are experiencing poorer health outcomes than their host communities, according to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) first ever report on the health of the world’s one billion expatriates. The poorer health outcomes…

Last month Syrian refugee Yousif Kawerma and his family moved into a new home in Melbourne’s north and he started a new job as an aircraft maintenance engineer with Qantas. With his three daughters now at university, Yousif is at…

Refugees and migrants are overwhelmingly embracing Australia’s electoral process and were keen to vote in May’s federal election, a new survey has found. A survey of more than a hundred refugees and migrants who voted for the first time found…

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, around 6.6 million people have fled to neighbouring countries. Poland has seen the highest number of Ukrainian refugees with an estimated 3.5 million, of which 94 per cent have been women and children.…

Australia’s population has become larger and more culturally diverse over the past five years, according to data from the 2021 census. The nation’s population increased by 2.2 million to 25.5 million between 2016 and 2021 as more than a million…

Afghans in Australia have called on the international community to step up humanitarian aid to the victims of the devastating earthquake in the Afghanistan’s Paktika province, which has left more than 1000 people dead. Ghulum Rasool Karwan, who lived in…

Twenty countries from the Americas, including the US, this month signed a historic declaration committing to help and protect “all migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, and stateless persons, regardless of their migratory status.” The ‘Los Angeles Declaration’ released by the White House…

Most people arriving in the UK by small boats across the English Channel should be considered to be refugees, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR. The statement is a direct challenge to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel who told…

Measuring Australia’s cultural diversity will become a focus of the new federal government as it moves to strengthen the nation’s immigration programs and multicultural institutions.    In his first speech as Minister for Immigration, Andrew Giles said his aim was…

Almost 60 million people were internally displaced last year with conflict, natural disasters and ethnic and religious persecution are on the rise across the globe, a new report reveals. The ‘Global Report on Internal Replacement’ says a record 59.1 million…

The European Union has come under fire over ’double standards’ in the way in has treated Ukrainian refugees in comparison with people fleeing other conflicts.  Almost three months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Union has welcomed more than…