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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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…
Australia still appears as ‘the lucky country’ for newcomers with more than half of newly arrived migrant and refugees...
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Mother languages spoken by migrants and indigenous groups are under threat because of the rise of nationalism and...
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A fossil discovered in Israel could date human migration out of Africa to 190,000 years ago, 70,000 years earlier than...
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More than 1200 child migrants have died since 2014 nearly half of them while attempting to cross the Mediterranean,...
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