Manus refugee wins international human rights award
Abdul Aziz Muhamat, a Sudanese refugee unlawfully held for over five years on Manus Island, has won the prestigious Martin Ennals Award, presented in...
Nauru food crisis worsens after power blackouts
Asylum seekers on Naoero (formerly Nauru) are facing a severe food shortage after being forced to dispose of food following the second power blackout at their camp in the last week.
Refugee advocates lobby Indonesian President to intervene for Merak boat people
Media Release March 11, 2010
Refugee advocates and Tamil community representatives today (Thursday) delivered a letter to the Sydney Indonesian consulate to be delivered to...
Hunger strike starts as Nauru protests spread
The protests by asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru that began on Thursday 25 August are continuing, and have now spread to the single...
Rudd’s anti-people smuggling crusade is threatening asylum seekers lives
11 July 2009
Media Release
In the aftermath of the rescue of a 74 asylum seekers’ boat yesterday, the refugee advocate who alerted Australian border protection...
Tensions growing on Nauru: locals banned from detention centre after asylum seeker attacked by...
A fight between asylum seekers and a Nauruan local last Friday, 11 October, has resulted in all local Nauruan workers being banned from Bravo...
SERCO SUICIDE-WATCH FIASCO AT DARWIN DETENTION CENTRE
A Kurdish man at Darwin detention centre, who was accepted as a refugee two months ago, supposedly under 24 hour suicide watch by Serco...
Behrouz Boochani arrested by Manus Immigration to force transfer
Behrouz Boochani, the Iranian asylum seeker who staged the tree protest yesterday in Foxtrot compound has been arrested at a meeting with Immigration and...
More Manus refugees fly to the US but hundreds still in limbo
Two planes in the last two weeks have taken 38 refugees from Papua New Guinea to be resettled in the United States. One carrying...
Brisbane detention protest calls for freedom for Hamid
Around 50 people held a protest at Brisbane's immigration detention centre, BITA to call for the release of Hamid, an Iranian refugee brought from Nauru to Australia in February this year.
