Entire generations of children in many parts of the world are at risk of falling into poverty and hopelessness because of the COVID pandemic, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF has warned. UNICEF says closed schools, surging poverty, forced marriages…

With borders slammed shut, jobs lost and aid increasingly difficult to deliver, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated humanitarian crises across the globe. So what will happen in 2021 as the pandemic continues and the rollout of vaccines in many part…

Melbourne’s population will flat line this year because the COVID pandemic has halted overseas immigration, according to a new report. The study says the city will have 540,000 fewer people in 20 years than was recently forecast. High immigration has…

All refugee children living in host countries could receive educations at a cost of just $US4.85 billion a year, according to a new report by the World Bank and the UNHCR. The ‘Global Cost of Inclusive Refugee Education’ report computed…

The COVID-19 pandemic is putting humanitarian efforts under enormous stress, according to a new report, which also raises questions about how equal the access to vaccines will be. The ‘Tracking the Coronavirus’ report by the New Humanitarian organisation says that…

The latest Scanlon Foundation report on social cohesion in Australia has produced some surprisingly positive results in the face of the social and psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite international border closures and job losses in the past year,…

More than 20,000 refugees appear to be missing from two camps in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region after the camps were destroyed in the region’s on-going conflict, the UN has reported. The refugees, mostly from neighbouring Eritrea, fled from the Hitsats…

People across the globe still broadly support the idea of internationalism and inter-government cooperation despite divisive challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and the rise of nationalist leaders, a new survey has found. Research by the Washington-based think…

Members of Melbourne’s Syrian community have launched a campaign to support the children of families in Syria who are falling into poverty and destitution as a result of a decade of war and the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent pandemic restrictions, the…

The latest annual report on global human rights has called on the incoming Biden administration in the US to restore support for human rights and embed it as an element of US domestic and foreign policy. In his introduction to…

Asylum seekers are stepping up to help Victoria’s agricultural producers continue to operate amid labour shortages triggered by the COVID-19 lockdowns. In just one example, Koala Cherries, at Yarck, in central Victoria, has recruited six asylum seekers – from Ethiopia,…

Incoming US President Joe Biden may struggle to undo much of the havoc wrought by the Trump administration to the US immigration and refugee protection systems, observers say. Refugee advocates in the US have called on incoming US President Joe…