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Telling the stories that matter - with empathy, insight and purpose
Telling the stories that matter - with empathy, insight and purpose
Her own family’s story of displacement has driven Lena Torus’ passion to help refugees find their first homes in Australia. Lena is a Senior Client Manager with the Ray White real estate agency in Melbourne’s south-east, an area where thousands of migrants and refugee have settled in recent years. She has been working with refugee […]
A program to resettle refugees in a struggling regional Victorian town has resulted in positive outcomes for the refugee families and added seventy jobs and more than $40 million to the local economy, according to a ground-breaking economic impact study.…
Growing numbers of refugees and asylum seekers are living not in camps, but in teeming and often inhospitable large cities around the globe. Across Asia, from India to the Pacific islands, mostly in developing countries with little humanitarian infrastructure, there…
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop visits Iran next week to press the government to accept back Iranian asylum seekers found not be refugees. Read more: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/04/11/iran-return-failed-asylum-seekers
Increasing attacks against asylum seekers in Germany in recent months have raised fears that a new wave of racism and xenophobia is about to sweep the nation. Berlin-based human rights organisation ProAsyl has reported 47 attacks against asylum seekers were…
A Syrian refugee has been granted her wish this Easter after staff at a Swedish animal shelter rescued her long lost cat from quarantine in Sicily. An animal shelter in Grängesberg, central Sweden, raised funds through Facebook to bring the…
Over 1000 people attended last week’s Community Cultural Fair, hosted for the third year at the Multicultural Hub, in celebration of Cultural Diversity Week. Fair attendees were treated to roving cultural performances, rituals and workshops including: Burundi drummers, an Ethiopian…
A senior Cambodian government official says the Cambodian government supported the refugee resettlement deal with Australia on a ‘humanitarian’ basis, arguing that Australia is unfairly criticised over its treatment of refugees. Read more: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/03/26/cambodia-supports-australia-refugee-deal-humanitarian-grounds
Newly arrived migrants and refugees are benefiting from the federal government’s Work for the Dole scheme which provides crucial exposure to, and experience of, Australian workplaces, according to a leading settlement agency. Despite criticism of the scheme from academics and…
Go Lam is sitting in her new office cubicle and can barely believe her luck. She is neatly dressed, eager to make a good impression. Fingers at the keyboard, raring to go. The 28-year-old refugee from Myanmar is among the…
The past week has seen Melbourne come alive with the sights, smells and sounds of Cultural Diversity Week 2015. Lasting from the 14-22 March, our biggest ever Cultural Diversity Week has helped showcase the many and varied customs and traditions that…
IMMIGRATION Minister Peter Dutton has launched a High Court challenge to a lower court’s ruling that is undermining the Coalition’s efforts to deport failed asylum-seekers. Read more: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/peter-dutton-to-test-lower-courts-asylum-judgment/story-fn9hm1gu-1227263931207
Britain’s Home Office has caused a public outcry over its treatment of LGBT asylum seekers. Aderonke Apata, a Nigerian LGBT rights campaigner, applied for asylum in the UK after facing persecution in her native home as a result of her…