Australia’s overseas-born population has increased to 8.8 million, or 32 per cent of the total population, according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ASBS).
The latest data,…
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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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…
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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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…
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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Wars in Syria and Iraq have driven the number of people requesting asylum in industrialised countries to a 22-year high...
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Australia has made progress in the area of human rights over the past year but faces challenges in its approach...
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Increasing attacks against asylum seekers in Germany in recent months have raised fears that a new wave of racism and...
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It’s easy to think of the rise of ISIS as a sudden explosive phenomenon when you look at the mainstream...
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