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The Australian National University (ANU) has announced the creation of a new university consortium to help build pathways to higher education for refugees from around the world. The Australian Refugee Welcome University Sponsorship Consortium (ARWUSC) brings together, under the leadership of ANU, 12 universities each with strong commitments to social impact. This nationwide

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More than a million Afghan refugees in Pakistan have just days left to leave the country, throwing them and their loved ones all over the world, including in Australia, into disarray.

Afghan community members say they are "disheartened" by the government's rejection of more than 50,000 applicants for humanitarian visas in the period since the Taliban regained control in their home country.

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The fate of a Biden administration immigration program that has allowed tens of thousands of Cubans, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans and Haitians to enter the United States on humanitarian grounds is in the hands of a Texas federal judge overseeing a lawsuit that will go to trial Thursday.

Australia has announced the number of people resettled under its Humanitarian Program has increased to 20,000 a year.

After an 18-day walk, three Afghans who once worked with the ADF in their home country, have reached Canberra, ending their journey with a peaceful protest in front of Parliament House.

On 20 July, three Afghans who once worked with the ADF in their home country, set off on a 700km walk to advocate for the safety and freedom of extended families they claim are "stranded" in Afghanistan.

This Refugee Week and on World Refugee Day, Amnesty International Australia is calling on the federal Labor government to raise the Refugee and Humanitarian Program intake deliver on the commitment in their party platform to to at least 27,000 places a year.