Australians are moving home within the country less and less, according to a new study. Traditionally, Australians are among the most mobile populations in the world with more than 40 per cent of people changing address every five years. This…

Refugee girls and women are leading efforts to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus in camps, according to a report by the UN’s refugee agency. And they play a vital role in displaced populations’ ability to not only survive,…

For twenty years Bernard Vancuylenburg has been volunteering to help newly arrived refugees and migrants learn English and settle in their new country. A migrant himself, he has found a mission in life to support new migrants with English language…

Gomis Rugamba Bakhambu says he is a lucky boy. Despite surviving the worst genocide in modern history, two decades in a refugee camp and a precarious education that saw him walk 24 kilometres a day to attend school, the Congolese…

Children of migrants are doing better than English-speaking students in writing and spelling, according to the latest NAPLAN results. The results show 95 per cent of migrant students in Year 5 reached the minimum standard in writing, compared to 93…

Authorities worldwide are using the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext to crack down on human rights for political purposes, according to democratic think tank Freedom House. In a new report, Freedom House has warned there is a real risk that…

Nine years ago this month Syria, descended into war. The conflict war has destroyed some of the oldest cities in the world, killed upwards of half a million people, and contributed to the greatest refugee crisis since WWII. The fighting, which…

As talks in the Pakistani capital Islamabad get underway on the future of almost five million Afghan refugees, Afghan-Hazara refugee and award winning photo-journalist Barat Ali Batoor reflects on his peoples’ four decades of exile. It has been 40 years…

International discussions are about to begin on how refugees can have a greater say in their own resettlement arrangements. A meeting at Ottawa, in Canada, this month will look at how to ensure the active participation of refugees in resettlement…

As US President Donald Trump continues to hollow out his nation’s refugee programs, local elected leaders across the country, including republicans, are calling for the numbers of refugees accepted by America to increase. Hundreds of elected leaders have put their…

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Myanmar to “take all measures within its power” to protect its Rohingya minority from genocide. For the first time, a global court has pronounced judgement against Myanmar for the 2017 military purge…

The European Union (EU) has been paying other countries to keep migrants away from its shores effectively using aid money as an instrument of migration policy, according to two new reports. The reports, released separately by the New York Times…