Compelling news from the refugee and migrant sector

Teenagers show the way towards social cohesion

30 April 20260 comments

The Australia Day speeches of two schoolgirls from the northern Victorian town of Nhill are signposts to the inspiring and exemplar story of a community that had embraced diversity…

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75 years of refugee protection marked

30 April 20260 comments

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees – the cornerstone of the international refugee protection regime.
For 75 years, the convention…

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Refugee’s long journey to safety

27 April 20260 comments

Eritrean refugee Jahar Mussa Mahmud survived conscription by a brutal military regime, the harsh conditions of a notorious military camp and ten years as a refugee living precariously in…

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Supporting a thousand refugee families to find homes

17 April 20260 comments

A thousand refugee families across Melbourne have safe and secure homes thanks to the work of former Karen-Burmese refugee, Law Baw.
As a housing worker with migrant and refugee settlement…

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Rethinking the global displacement crisis

1 April 20260 comments

Refugee resettlement in third countries is now not a durable solution to the global crisis of human displacement, according to former Assistant Secretary of the United Nations Professor Gillian…

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Migrant women find independence and more rights in Australia

16 March 20260 comments

Migrant women in Australia are finding more independence, equality and a healthier and wealthier life with more opportunity than in their home countries, according to a new survey.
An overwhelming…

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Latest Articles

October 2017

Stark photos bring home the reality of Rohingya crisis

31 October 20170 comments

Award-winning Canadian photojournalist Kevin Frayer has spent two weeks in Bangladesh documenting the lives of some of the...

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Rohingyas the world’s fastest growing humanitarian crisis

31 October 20170 comments

The number of Rohingya refugees who have fled a military crackdown in Myanmar has hit a staggering half million in...

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What now for Raqqa?

26 October 20170 comments

After years of fighting, Islamic State has finally been driven out of the city of Raqqa, its main stronghold in Syria....

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Remembering the horrors of Raqqa

26 October 20170 comments

A Syrian refugee who escaped the conflict in the city of Raqqa in 2015 has told of his relief that...

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