Humanity
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Young women’s memoirs of migration, dispossession and Australian ‘unbelonging’ demand to be heard
Her memoir begins at the age of five, when she fled with her mother and her three siblings from civil…
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Whoever, Wherever, Whenever – Everyone has the right to seek safety!
A Photographic Exhibition, featuring the work of Sebastian Rich On the occasion of World Refugee Day On the occasion of…
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England’s heatwave could be deadly for homeless people, charity warns
Temperatures soared to over 30°C as the UK Health Security Agency issued a level three heat alert for London, the…
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Australians Show Strong Support For Refugees: New Research
The research, commissioned as part of Amnesty’s annual Human Rights Barometer, shows that 72% of Australians support either maintaining or…
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Dark Day For Humanity As Number Of Refugees Hits 100 Million
As if that figure wasn’t worrying enough, almost 40 per cent of that figure are children, of whom 21 million…
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Boats are not the problem, it’s the 130,000 asylum seekers living here
The recent spate of asylum-seeker boats is due to the combination of an economic crisis in Sri Lanka and a…
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Traumatising treatment of Rwanda detainees akin to torture, say human rights lawyers
Asylum-seekers who had been due to be deported to the east African country on Tuesday night were put in restraints,…
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Ethiopia’s Invisible Ethnic Cleansing
For more than a year and a half, a largely invisible campaign of ethnic cleansing has played out in Ethiopia’s northern…
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More than 100 million people displaced worldwide, UN refugee agency says
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in its annual update that the increase had come as millions of Ukrainians were driven from…
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Gaza: Israel’s ‘Open-Air Prison’ at 15
(Gaza) – Israel’s sweeping restrictions on leaving Gaza deprive its more than two million residents of opportunities to better their…
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UK: Rwanda deportation flight set to go ahead after court rejects appeal
A last-minute bid to halt deportations of asylum-seekers to Rwanda failed on Monday after the Court of Appeal in London dismissed attempts…
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Lawyers urged to fight for disability rights
Dr Dinesh Palipana sat down with host Jerome Doraisamy of The Lawyers Weekly Show to talk about the inspiring journey…
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The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland review – how an Auschwitz breakout alerted the world
It was around September 1942, the month when he turned 18, that Rudolf Vrba came to a momentous decision. Matthew…
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Welcome, strangers: Queen’s Birthday Honour for asylum seeker advocate
She saw that with help from the community, they could not just survive but thrive. Carolyn Webb The Age It’s…
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Ukrainian and Russia forces fighting in the streets for Sievierodonetsk as UN warns of ‘human trafficking crisis’
Which side had the upper hand in Sievierodonetsk on Monday (local time) was unclear, with “the situation changing from hour…
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Fleeing to Safety – A Photographic Exhibition
On the occasion of World Refugee Day UNHCR On the occasion of World Refugee Day 2022, the UNHCR Country Office…
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