AMES Australia board member Vedran Drakulic has been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the Australia Day honours list. Vedran, who also Chief Executive Officer at Gandel Philanthropy, received his award for services to the community…

Australian television drama is failing to portray people from culturally diverse groups in its representations of the wider society, a new survey has found. While indigenous characters are now featuring prominently on the small screen, people from non-Anglo Celtic backgrounds…

Indonesia has softened its stance on asylum seekers by streamlining procedures for processing migrants and clearing barriers that had previously stopped them from entering the country. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has issued presidential regulation detailing protocols on how to handle…

The rise of populist leaders in the United States and Europe is a threat to basic human rights and the protection of minorities, according to independent think tank Human Rights Watch. In its recently released World Report 2017, Human Rights…

More than 7,000 migrants have perished or disappeared in 2016, more than in any other previous recorded year, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). An IOM survey on migration routes across the world found 7,189 migrants and refugees…

Most countries have one or two official languages, but first nation peoples, multiculturalism and globalisation often mean many more tongues are spoken within a nation’s borders. Australia has a particularly rich linguistic culture according to 2016 Ethnologue Data, with a…

These days news from the Middle East seems always to be all bad. The Arab world accounts for 36 per cent of global terrorist attacks, and 43 per cent of global deaths from terrorism. It supplies around 58 per cent…

A year ago Canada was hailed as a humanitarian exemplar for opening its doors to tens of thousands of Syrian refugees. The nation’s pin-up Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the most of the media opportunity as he greeted the first…

The use of words stemming from Adolf Hitler’s Nazi ideology are on the rise across Europe as tensions over issues like refugee migration and nationalism increase, new research suggests. After the end of World War II, Germany embarked on a…

Carly Copolov travelled to Indonesia on a research trip, but came home inspired to help make a difference to the lives of refugee women living there. Now her not-for-profit social enterprise, Beyond the Fabric, is doing just that by giving…

The exploitation of migrant and refugee workers in Melbourne’s west is widespread and systemic, according to a new report. The Western Community Legal Centre’s (WCLC) investigation into labour rorting has found that the underpayment of workers new to Australia could…

In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the US Presidential election, the future of US refugee policy is uncertain. Some of Trump’s supporters want to see the US cancel its refugee program and certainly Trump has said he will…