News & Views My mother led our family to safety. 26 years on, we are part of the Australian story My mother became a refugee after genocide, then rebuilt our lives in a new country while carrying unimaginable loss.
News & Views Refugees: let’s also celebrate them when they are not winning. We celebrate diversity in sport, but migrants and refugees still face inequality and exclusion in everyday life.
News & Views Refugee and migrant women know their stories best. It’s time we paid attention. Refugee and migrant women need space, encouragement and genuine attention to share stories in their own words.
News & Views Hidden in plain sight: the growing refugee crises in the Middle East While all eyes are on the Middle East amid conflict between Iran and Israel, burgeoning humanitarian crises fly under the radar.
News & Views After three years of war, Ukraine’s women and girls make up majority of the displaced Today marks three years of full-scale war in Ukraine, with women and girls making up the majority of the 10 million displaced people.
News & Views Violence towards refugee and migrant women often goes undetected. We’ve found a way to help fix that We found refugee women place a high value on being able to talk with someone who speaks their language,
News & Views As Sudan marks one year of war, Monica* is fighting to keep her dream of becoming a nurse alive Monica* has been twice displaced by war, but she is now bringing hope to children at Save the Children while pursuing my dream to become a nurse.
News & Views Why this group of refugee women walked 650km to parliament house A group of 22 refugee women walked 650km from Immigration Minister Andrew Giles’ office in Victoria to Parliament House in Canberra.
News & Views At just 27, Fatima Payman will be the first Afghan-Australian to enter federal parliament Fatima Payman has been elected to the senate, making history as the first Muslim woman who wears a hijab to sit in federal parliament.
Life Hunger, dust-storms, war – how I defied the odds as a South Sudanese child refugee My name is Akuch Kuol Anyieth. I am South Sudanese by birth, Kenyan by migration and life experience, and Australian by migration and citizenship.
News & Views ‘I could no longer live in Syria or Iraq if I wanted to feel safe’: Dana Al Samaan ‘I could not live in Syria or Iraq if I wanted to feel safe’: Dana Al Samaan reflects on making a new ‘safe’ life in Australia on World Refugee Day.
World How rape is being used as a weapon against women in Burma A Human Rights Watch report by Ske Wheeler outlines the extent to which sexual violence is being used against women in Burma.
