Global support for offering refuge to people fleeing war or persecution is holding firm with significant willingness among people in host countries to find solutions to enabling refugees to access their human rights, according to a new study. The Ipsos…

NGO delegates from 26 countries today have called for international action to expand resettlement and additional migration pathways for refugees at a major refugee settlement conference in Geneva. The call came as the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR released a new…

Human mobility has returned to pre-pandemic levels, but climate and environmental events have begun to trigger larger, longer-distance movements, a new study says. The study, titled ‘The State of Global Mobility in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic’, produced by the…

The 2024-25 Victoria budget treads a tricky path between reining in debt, promoting economic growth and providing relief on cost-of-living pressures. It is also navigating the twin shoals of high inflation and labour shortages as it sets a target of…

Opinion by Jalal Ahmadzai – a former Afghan refugee who works in Marketing and Communications writes about the role of misinformation in social media and Islamophobia born from it, via AMES Australia.   April 13, 2024 – Panic ensues inside…

Australia’s population is projected to reach between 34.3 million and 45.9 million people by 2071 – up from 26 million in 2022, according to new modelling by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). But without overseas migration, the population will decline, the ABS…

The world will soon be plunged into a fierce competition for skilled migrants, according to the head of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Amy Pope, the Director General of the UN’s migration agency, said the world’s top 30 economies…

Myanmar’s military has announced plans to introduce enforced conscription to make up for recruitment shortfalls and battlefield losses. Troop losses have been mounting in the conflict against armed mostly minority ethnic groups fighting to overturn the 2021 military coup. Observers…

More than 8,565 people died on migration routes across the world in 2023, the deadliest year on record for migrants, according to the United Nations migration. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said the number of migrant deaths recorded last…

Australia ranks tenth in a new list of the world’s top migration countries compiled by the World Bank. The report looks at migration trends since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and found Australia’s migrant intake in 2021 was 117,929,…

Victoria’s vibrant multicultural communities have been profiled in a new resource for organisations and individuals wanting to engage with them. The Department of Families, Fairness and Housing has recently posted 37 profiles of cultural communities in Victoria on its website. …

Emerging refugee and migrant communities in Australia appear to be suffering greater cost of living stress than the broader community, a survey of community leaders has found.  A focus group of 34 community leaders in 21 key cohort migrant and…