The European Union has released its long-awaited migration policy plan that focuses on mandatory burden sharing but also on sending illegal migrants back to their home countries. The ‘Migration and Asylum Pact’ is the latest effort by the EU’s executive…

The Federal Government has been urged to increase migration to Australia, and particularly skilled migration, as a key part of the nation’s economic recovery in the wake of COVID-19. A new report from the Committee for the Economic Development of…

Iraqi refugee Aram Shaabo left behind a comfortable life and a burgeoning career as a pharmacist when he fled his home in northern Iraq as ISIS militia groups attacked. After years of living in refugee camps and eking out a…

The adage ‘from small things big things grow’ may have never been more appropriate than when applied to a small micro finance outfit that is doing big things when it comes to supporting refugees to start their own businesses. More…

Having to flee violence and threats twice in her life has influenced the work that young Syrian artist Rama Kadrou produces. Her images convey an almost visceral sense of what it is to be a refugee and speak of the…

The United Nations’ World Humanitarian Day passed with little fanfare recently, with the world’s focus firmly on the COVID-19 pandemic. But, lurking beneath the global preoccupation with the pandemic is a frightening statistic that a record number of people will…

A Yemeni doctor working on the frontline of his nation’s COVID-19 battle has penned an extraordinary diary painting a compelling picture of his work among people struck down by the pandemic, many of them migrants and refugees. Dr Ammar Derwish…

Refugee client supported into work and study Syrian refugee Raed Hamoud Alshaar is leaving no stone unturned in his determination to establish a new life in Australia. Since fleeing the horrors of the conflict in his homeland, the 23 year…

Remittances, or money sent home by migrants, are expected to fall by a record 20 per cent this year, according to a new data. The drop in remittances from a high of $US714 billion in 2019 to an estimated $US572…

Refugee-run businesses are proving resilient and innovative in the face of the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, new data shows. An audit of small businesses last year found that more than 300 had been opened by refugees in…

In 2018 alone, more than 16 million people were displaced from their homes by extreme climate events – most of them from poorer nations, according to new research. Scientists at Germany’s Max Planck Institute have used a climate game to…

Sports programs are helping refugees and displaced people cope with the COVID-19 crisis. The Olympic Refuge Foundation (ORF) and UN refugee agency UNHCR have announced the launch of several new sports initiatives aimed at helping young people. Thomas Bach, the…