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Syrian Children Fear Return to War Torn Homeland

Friday, March 15, 2019

War is the biggest fear for most children, global survey reveals

Media Releases, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Refugees, Syria, World Vision

World Vision welcomes Labor pledge to increase aid funding

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

World Vision Australia has today welcomed the Labor Party’s commitment to increase aid funding

Media Releases, Asia and the Pacific

All Refugee #KidsOffNauru ​

Thursday, February 28, 2019

World Vision Australia welcomes the news that the last four refugee children living in Australian offshore detention have departed Nauru for settlement in the USA.

Media Releases, Asia and the Pacific

Venezuela crisis: facts and how to help

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Political and economic instability has severely shaken Venezuela to its core, while a humanitarian emergency crisis has quietly unfolded in the background. Food shortages, lack of medicine and violence have led an increasing number of Venezuelans to flee the country and seek safety in neighbouring countries such as Colombia, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador.

Media Releases, Latin America and Carribean

Venezuela’s children should not be used as political leverage.

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

World Vision has called for urgent access for humanitarian aid to Venezuela and warned against the use of children for political leverage.

Media Releases, Latin America and Carribean

Education, income-generation for Rohingya refugees must be top priorities

Friday, February 15, 2019

(Cox’s Bazar, 15 February 2019) Education and income-generating opportunities must be made top priorities for the nearly 1 million Rohingya still languishing in the world’s largest refugee camp almost 18 months after fleeing violence and persecution in Myanmar, said three leading NGOs at the launch of a new UN funding plan for the crisis launched in Geneva today.

Media Releases, Asia and the Pacific

Medical Treatment Bill passes both houses of parliament

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Today a coalition of refugee and humanitarian organisations and members of the public demonstrated what can happen when we stand together as one.

Media Releases, Asia and the Pacific

Australia must do more to end plight of child soldiers

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Australia’s leading humanitarian organisation is calling on the Australian Government to step up its response to the tens of thousands of children illegally recruited into armed forces around the world last year.

Media Releases, Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, World Vision

‘Too excited to speak'

Monday, February 11, 2019

Aboriginal women and children to benefit from $2.2m grant from the Ian Potter Foundation ​

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Refugee advocates, lawyers and human rights groups unite in rejecting Government’s medical panel proposal

Monday, February 4, 2019

A Government proposal to address the medical crisis engulfing critically ill refugees detained offshore has been firmly rejected as window dressing on the existing unconscionable process which has seen 12 people die in offshore detention in the past five years.

Media Releases, Asia and the Pacific, Asylum Seekers, Australian Government, Claire Rogers, Refugees

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