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basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled

The Ogaden community in Melbourne

 
Members of the Ogaden community living in Melbourne want Australians to know about the human rights voilations that are occuring in their homeland. 
 
Hassan Nur, who came to Australia from the Ogaden region in south-eastern Ethiopia 20 years ago, undertook a media skills workshop to help him in his role as a spokesman for the community.  Hear his story by clicking the link below.  
 

It's Good to be Home

 Selma Cook is an expatriate Australian-Muslim writer who lived in Egypt from the late 1990s until the February uprising against Hosni Mubarak’s military regime.  Her story is from Aiman S Ahmad
 

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One young woman who attended the workshop in Shepparton says she is hurt by racial stereotypes in the media.

 

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