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Nyadol Nyuon, Chair of Harmony Alliance, reflects on the diverse experiences of refugee women in Australia, drawing on the findings of the 2021 Migrant Women's Safety Report. With guest MC, Sonia Di Mezza, CEO, Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services.

About Nyadol Nyuon:
Nyadol Nyuon is a lawyer, community advocate, writer, and accomplished public speaker.

Nyadol Nyuon was born in a refugee camp in Itang, Ethiopia, and raised in Kakuma Refugee camp, Kenya. In 2005, at the age of eighteen, she moved to Australia as a refugee.

Since then, Nyadol has completed a Bachelor of Arts from Victoria University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Melbourne.

Nyadol Nyuon is a vocal advocate for human rights, multiculturalism, the settlement of people with refugee experiences and those seeking asylum. She has worked and volunteered extensively in these areas with a range of organisations.

Nyadol Nyuon is also a regular media commentator in these areas, having appeared on ABC’s The Drum, as a panellist on Q&A and contributing to The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and the Saturday Paper, to name just a few.

In both 2011 and 2014, Nyadol Nyuon was nominated as one of the hundred most influential African Australians. In 2016, she was the recipient of the Future Justice Prize.

In 2018 her efforts to combat racism were widely recognised, with achievements including the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Racism. It Stops With Me Award. The prestigious award was in recognition of her advocacy and activism on behalf of the Australian-African and Melbourne’s South Sudanese communities. Nyadol Nyuon also received the Harmony Alliance Award for significant contribution to empowering migrant and refugee women, and was a co-winner of the Tim McCoy Prize for her advocacy on behalf of the South Sudanese Community. She also received the Afro-Australian Student Organisation‘s Unsung Hero Award.

Read the 2021 Migrant Women's Safety Report: https://doi.org/10.26180/14863...  - https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/report/_/14863872

About Harmony Alliance: https://harmonyalliance.org.au/about/

Watch Nyadol Nyuon's National Press Club presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9QN0XO8NAg