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Rainbow Connections: A space for young people with multiple identities
LGBTIQ multicultural youths are using art to tell their stories in a new project run by Multicultural Health Support Service. Daily, young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds have to navigate the different cultural spaces that exist between family, friends,...
Mental Health Commission Must Reflect Victoria’s Diversity
Last year, the premier announced Labor would establish Australia’s first royal commission into Victoria’s mental health system if re-elected. Since Labor's re-election, submissions to the commission have flooded in. CEH welcomes the commitment to a commission. But we...
More Support Needed for International Students’ Mental Health
We need to improve strategies to encourage international students to seek support for mental health, Coroner Audrey Jamieson recommended this week, after the inquest into the death of an international student in 2016. The Coroner’s investigation quoted research that...
Discrimination has Lasting Health Impacts
Sunday’s rally in St Kilda is another example of the African Australian community being used as a political pawn in a larger debate about law and order and immigration when there is lots of research on the positive benefits of multiculturalism. There is clear...
Xenophobia at Miss Universe Pageant?
In a recent Facebook Live, Miss USA spoke about two other contestants in a way that suggested everyone should be able to speak English. Despite the fact that they were in Thailand at the time. “Miss Cambodia is here and doesn’t speak any English, and not a single...
Five important things we learnt at our World AIDS day Event
For World AIDS Day, the Multicultural Community Action Network (MCAN) held a forum on 8 December 2018 to advocate, campaign and inform the community about new prevention, treatment and care strategies for HIV. Under the unifying theme ‘prevention for all’, migrants,...
Why we need to change the date of Australia Day
Australia Day is the official national day of Australia, held on 26 January every year. This date marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales, and the raising of the Flag of Great Britain at Sydney...
International Migrants Day
On 18 December every year, the world observes International Migrants Day. This day recognises the large number of migrants worldwide, encouraging us to share information about human rights and the fundamental freedoms of migrants. It also encourages us to share our...
23 NDIS workshops delivered by CEH in 2018.
The free training to support National Disability Insurance Scheme providers in Victoria to engage with clients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds have ended
80 workshops delivered by CEH in 2018
Trainers Jolyon Burford, Siri Gunawardana and Spase Veljanovski delivered 80 workshops and presentations throughout Victoria and interstate. Siri got the most holiday sounding venue – Noosa (it was South Brisbane, but whatever).
CEH congratulates winners of Victorian Election
Congratulations to Premier Daniel Andrews and the Labour Party on winning the state election on Saturday. CEH believes the victory of the Labour Party is the victory of inclusion and multiculturalism that all Victorians value. Victoria has chosen social cohesion over division
CEH alarmed as White Ribbon withdraws support for Women’s sexual health
Last week, White Ribbon’s new chief executive Tracy McLeod Howe removed the organisation’s support of reproductive rights from its website. Support that said: We are opposed to all forms of control, violence and abuse. Restricting or denying a woman the autonomy to...
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