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A voice of hope for Afghanistan's women

By Frud Bezhan

 Melbourne - For the women of Afghanistan, it is yet another brutal message — that death awaits those who choose a public life.

The Small Woes of Settlement

By Katie Fraser

 Melbourne - When I first started working with African clients six months ago at a Community Legal Centre in Melbourne’s western suburbs, I had a slightly sensationalized idea of what I might expect. Disaffected youths picked up for loitering, concealed weapons, and drug possession? Crimes involving gang violence and assault?

Opportunity Knocks with Migrant Workers - valued assets in these trying times

By Rosemary Kelada, CEO, Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre

  Melbourne - An opportunity is knocking for both employers and retrenched manufacturing workers, like the latest group from Pacific Brands. It is easy to become depressed about the global financial crisis and to consider the prospective unemployment of many of the manufacturing workers, many of them migrant men and women, as being a further layer of disadvantage for them. In our experience, however, migrants have much to offer potential employers.

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