The Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria marks Refugee Week 2020 through the release of a special campaign video featuring high-profile Australians from refugee and migrant backgrounds sharing their stories and talking about the impacts of racism and discrimination.
WELCOME. A simple word that means so much. A promise of warmth, friendship and love. For people fleeing places of danger, it means safety, and the opportunity to rebuild their lives. Australian Refugee Action Network will host an Online Forum on World Refugee Day, Saturday June 20th at 12:55pm. In considering Australia’s welcome to Refugees, we should all explore the question: What type of society do you want, for yourself, for your family, for your community?
In this Refugee Week special, Amnesty International Australia Refugee Campaigner Shankar Kasynathan will be in conversation with Ali Al Battaat, discussing how people with refugee backgrounds are making our neighbourhoods that much brighter, especially during the past few months!
As Black Lives Matter protests rage across the world, many of us are motivated to learn more about racism, and talk to our students and children in ways that can facilitate change.
Education is a powerful took for creating change. So, it’s important teachers don’t shy away from difficult conversations in the classroom, even if they may feel daunting.
Multicultural Arts Victoria CEO Veronica Pardo has written in Arts Hub on the importance of a recovery based on cultural equity, as a way of addressing the substantive underrepresentation of people of colour and culturally diverse people in the arts. More than that, however, and equitable, representative and inclusive sector has the power to shift the dial on racism, and how we see ourselves as Australia. This is a powerful call to the arts sector to commit to the fight for racial justice.
The Orange Door is a free service for adults, children and young people who are experiencing or have experienced family violence and families who need extra support with the care of children. Minister for Prevention of Family Violence Gabrielle Williams today announced a site at a newly leased building in Shepparton would be home to a new Orange Door.
The Refugee Week 2020 theme is “Celebrating the Year of Welcome“. In 2020, Refugee Week will be moving online to ensure we can celebrate safely. Refugee Week 2020 will commence on Sunday 14 June and run until Saturday 20 June, 2020. Here, we examine “Who is a refugee” and what their experience is.
Refugee Week is Australia’s peak annual activity to inform the public about refugees and celebrate positive contributions made by refugees to Australian society. Refugee Week 2020 will commence on Sunday 14 June and run until Saturday 20 June, 2020.
Victoria Police has today launched videos in additional multiple languages to encourage people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities to seek help if they are experiencing family violence.
The Centre for Multicultural Youth has provided an info line for multicultural youth during the Covid-19 crisis.