STATELESS ASYLUM LIP STITCH PROTESTERS DECLARE HUNGER STRIKE
The three Faili Kurd asylum seekers who have had their lips stitched together since last Monday are continuing their protest and have now declared...
It’s not smugglers: it’s government policies that are pushing families onto boats
The Refugee Action Coalition has rejected claims that people smugglers are responsible for more asylum families arriving in Australia by boat.
“It is the government...
Hunger strike starts over immigration detention visits restrictions
Over two hundred detainees at two detention centres, Villawood in Sydney and Maribyrnong in Melbourne, have declared a hunger strike in protest at visiting...
Merak refugees face ‘evacuation’
Media Release February 5
REFUGEE ADVOCATES CALL FOR RESTRAINT AND GUARANTEES FROM AUSTRALIA AND INDONESIA FOR SAFETY AND FUTURE OF THE ASYLUM SEEKERS
Refugee activists in...
Morrison should stop the “terrorism” witch-hunt; Inquiry needed into AFP leaking misinformation
A refugee advocate has called for the Opposition Immigration Minister, Scott Morrison to end his “terrorism” witch-hunt, and for the government to investigate the...
PNG staff and PNG police excluded from Manus detention centre as more eye-witness accounts...
Despite denials by both G4S and PNG police that they were involved in the murder of Reza Barati and attacks on 77 other asylum...
ADVERSE SECURITY REFUGEES LODGE HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLAINT WITH GENEVA UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE
In a significant international challenge to their detention, thirty-nine refugees who have been refused visas because of ASIO adverse security findings will lodge a...
Immigration negligence puts Nauru mother and baby at risk
The Refugee Action Coalition is calling for the heavily pregnant, 34 year-old, Kurdish asylum seeker, Hatami (see photo), to be urgently brought to Australia...
SECOND REPORT SAYS SRI LANKA IS UNSAFE
Media release May 18, 2010
REFUGEE GROUPS CALL FOR END OF VISA FREEZE AND TO STOP TAMIL DEPORTATIONS
The second report in less than a month...
PACIFIC SOLUTION 2.0 STILL COSTING LIVES ANOTHER REFUGEE BOAT TRAGEDY ANOTHER NEED FOR AN...
The Refuge Action Coalition has renewed its call for a full independent inquiry into Australia’s response to safety-of-life-at-sea (SOLAS) situations involving asylum boats.
The latest...
