Refugee Week 2025: Finding Freedom – Diversity in Community

Refugee Week is Australia’s peak annual activity to promote greater awareness of refugees, the issues they face, and the contributions refugees are making to the Australian community.

To live without the fear of war, to have your basic human rights upheld, to live in equality and without the fear of persecution are just some of the examples of what freedom can entail. Every day millions of people across the world embark on dangerous journeys for the sole purpose of finding safety and freedom. From Australia to nations across the globe, settling into a new environment after experiencing the perils of a refugee’s journey can also provide the opportunity to live, to love and to dream.

Refugee Week runs from Sunday 15 June to Saturday 21 June.

Updated June 1, 2025
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Between Two Worlds
Norek, Olivier
Paper Book
**A Times 19 Best Books of 2024** **A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2024** ** A Times 10 Best Crime and Mystery Books of 2024 so far** "A police procedural unlike anything else in contemporary crime fiction" Sunday...
In my mother's footsteps : a Palestinian refugee returns home
Halaby, Mona
Paper Book
'Beautiful. Poignant. Phenomenal...I cried and I smiled...Truly a gem.' Goodreads reviewer A moving and heartbreaking journey of a daughter discovering her Palestinian roots and recovering her mother's beloved past. Perfect for fans of The Bookseller of Kabul...
The pianist of Yarmouk
Ahmad, Aeham
Paper Book
One morning on the outskirts of Damascus, two starving friends are walking through their desolate city and come across a familiar street that has been turned to rubble, concrete bridges towering above them like tombs and houses turned inside out. Aeham turns to the only comfort he has left and sits...
Rebel : my escape from Saudi Arabia to freedom
Mohammed, Rahaf
Paper Book
'Through her courageous resistance, she has, for a moment, drawn global attention to the ongoing struggle of Saudi women. The striking image of a young woman, wielding nothing but a cellphone, facing down the force of an oppressive government is an apt metaphor for this fraught moment in Saudi...
We are displaced : my journey and stories from refugee girls around the world
Yousafzai, Malala
Paper Book
In this powerful and emotional New York Times bestseller, Nobel Peace Prize winner and activist Malala Yousafzai shares various stories of displacement, including her own. Part memoir, part communal storytelling, We Are Displaced introduces readers to some of the incredible girls...

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