As the much-welcomed ceasefire appears to be imminent in Gaza, the legacy of 15 months of conflict is a grave humanitarian crisis, urban destruction and the deaths of around 50,000 people. Among the most egregious victims of the conflict are…

Palestinian and Jewish community members in Australia have welcomed the announcement of a ceasefire deal in Gaza after 15 months of conflict. The ceasefire, if it holds, is the first step in an agreement that will also see the release…

Driving into the Pacific Market at Ardeer, in Melbourne’s west, you are met with an array of flags and numerous food trucks. Pakistani, Italian, Indian and many other cuisines have formed a United Nations of food, ready to welcome visitors…

More than 60 million women and girls across the world who are forcibly displaced or stateless face high risks of gender-based violence”, according to the United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR. A new UNHCR report says “reports of conflict-related sexual violence…

The UN refugee agency UNHCR has launched an appeal to raise $US10 billion for 2025 to meet critical needs of millions of refugees, displaced persons and stateless people worldwide. The appeal is also aimed at funding sustainable solutions to displacement.…

Noble Peace Prize winner and Afghan refugee Malala Yousafzai has spoken out about the erosion of women’s rights in Afghanistan under the Taliban. Malala survived being shot by a Taliban extremist as she sat on a school bus in 2012.…

When the Ahmad-Zada family were deported from Pakistan to Afghanistan earlier this year as undocumented Afghan refugees, they feared the worst. Maryam Ahmad-Zada and her husband Habibullah had fled the Taliban takeover of their homeland and found refuge in Pakistan…

More than half of migrant women have been sexually harassed at work, according to a new survey. The national survey of more than 3,000 migrant women, carried out by Unions NSW, found 51 per cent had experienced workplace sexual harassment.…

Northern Gaza is likely to experience famine in coming weeks because of Israel’s siege, according to a new analysis by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS). “The severity of acute food insecurity in Gaza has sharply worsened since early…

Imelde Sabushimike is the first woman from Burundi’s ethnic minority Twa people to go to university and to become part of the government in her homeland. Now Burundi’s Minister for National Solidarity, Social Affairs, Human Rights and Gender, Ms Sabsushimike…

More than 700,000 people, half of them children, are now internally displaced across Haiti, according to a crisis report by the UN’s migration agency IOM. The latest figures represent a 22 per cent increase in the number of internally displaced…

Migration should be regarded as a solution to economic problems and the effects of climate change and not as population crisis, according to the head of the UN’s migration agency IOM. Director General of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)…