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The Curtin University Centre for Human Rights Education and the Refugee Rights Action Network invite you to an evening with awarded author Robin de Crespigny.
When: Thursday, 28 Feb, 2013
Time: 5:45pm for a 6pm start
Where: Tim Winton Lecture Theatre, Curtin University
RSVP by Monday, 25 February 2013 to g.galardi@curtin.edu.au or [...]
During this dire period for those seeking asylum in Australia, your ongoing support for refugees is invaluable. For refugees imprisoned indefinitely on Manus Island and Nauru, as well as the many thousands either in the mainland detention centres or in the community on bridging visa’s with no work rights, your support means so much.
In [...]
Refugee Rights Action Network organised a successful action in the Murray Street Mall on December 9 to mark Human Rights Day (December 10).
Participants and passers by were invited to dip their hand in red ink to make their mark for refugee rights on a banner. The new RRAN postcards were also available [...]
By Pamela Curr, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.
Immigration raids and re-detentions have begun across Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide this weekend. Immigration cars are watching houses where people are living lawfully on community detention conditions and bridging visas. There is fear among community based asylum seekers as those called to appointments are then seized and taken [...]
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RRAN activist Alex Bainbridge conducted this interview with a refugee on Nauru late on November 12 – the twelfth day of the mass hunger strike.
On November 13, most refugees chose to end the hunger strike after news that Amnesty International would visit [...]
[RRAN has received this message from asylum seekers on Nauru]
TO WHOM IT MAY COMERN
The government and people of Australia.
Today on 12/11/2012 is our 12th day of hunger strike.
25 more asylum seekers have been brought to the Nauru Hell from Darwin by force and fraud when they saw the worst condition of [...]
Video of yesterday’s protest in solidarity with hunger striking refugees on Nauru.
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The mass hunger strike by asylum seekers on Nauru enters its seventh day with around 300 people refusing food. The latest statement from the hunger strikers is pasted below.
Refugee groups have called solidarity protests for Thursday, 8 November in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Darwin – details below. The Sydney protest plans to make phone contact with the hunger [...]
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