A group of Rohingya refugees who claim they were seeking safety and faced caning and seven months in jail after they were convicted under Malaysia’s controversial Immigration Act have been spared. A Malaysian higher court reversed the decision to cane…

A Syrian refugee fought alongside Australian soldiers in WWII and who came to Australia as part of the nation’s extra intake of 12,000 victims of the Islamic State conflict has died peacefully. Danial Haron died at 97 surrounded by his…

Iraqi refugee Alaa Rafo Alasguir was tortured by ISIS and lost the business and wealth he had built up with his own hands over 27 years to the brutal, fundamentalist militant group. He also almost lost his wife Rana during…

“Life is on the move, today as in the past,” says author and journalist Sonia Shah. “For too long, we’ve suppressed the fact of the migration instinct, demonising it as a harbinger of terror. We’ve constructed a story about ourselves,…

Films can foster empathy for migrants, create better understanding of their plight and bring diverse communities together, according to new research. Coming amidst a blizzard of misinformation about migration triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the research suggests films can have…

A group of people newly arrived in Australia have written short pieces about aspects of their lives here in Melbourne and in their home countries as part of their English Conversation Class with AMES Australia Volunteer tutor Kim Soekirno, who…

One of the first Karen refugees to settle at Nhill in western Victoria was Kaw Doh Htoo. He lived in a refugee camp on the Thai-Burma border for seven years and came to Australia as a refugee ten years ago.…

Iraqi refugee Dina Afreem has joined Victoria’s health service working as a doctor as the state battles the COVID-19 crisis. She recently had her medical registration approved by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and she has begun work…

Spain has eclipsed Germany as the top destination for asylum-seekers in Europe thanks to an influx of displaced people from Latin America, according to new data. A new reports from the European Union’s asylum agency EASO says that Spain has…

The United Nation’s latest world population projections show that global population growth is slowing more quickly than anticipated. By 2100, the United Nations believes, the world’s population – now around eight billion – will be just under 10.9 billion. That’s…

Inspirational asylum seeker Abdul Razzaq is supporting other asylum seekers through a remarkable cricket project.

As we live through what is a major humanitarian crisis with the COVID-19 pandemic reaching into every corner the globe, fears are ramping up among civil society groups and humanitarian relief organisations that emerging trends which already threaten to become…