Opinion
The Global Compact on Migration (GCM) might not have been on everyone’s summer reading list. However, it is a history-making document of immense importance in our globalised world, where the movement of people has reached unprecedented proportions. It is touted as the first ever global instrument to coordinate the governance of international migration.
Opinion
The tragic drowning of 17-year-old Arash Yari at Parsons Beach on the South Coast of SA highlighted once again the need for migrants and refugees to be educated about the dangers of the sea and the importance of learning how to swim.
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The Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office has welcomed the commitment made by the Australian Labor Party to address the global humanitarian plight of asylum-seekers by promising to increase Australia’s annual humanitarian intake of refugees to 27,000 by 2025.
When Hang Thi Pham was escaping Communist Vietnam by boat in 1988, she was too scared to think about anything - even whether she would live or die.
More than 400 people from different cultures and nationalities celebrated the 104th World Day of Migrants and Refugees at a Multicultural Mass in St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral on Sunday August 26.
Her personal experience of being in a refugee family who fled from Iran provided the inspiration for Samira Ahmadi’s winning entry in a poster competition run as part of SA Refugee Week.
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