Refugee Rights Action Network WA
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Refugee rights groups from around the country will be converging on Yongah Hill Detention Centre (Northam, WA) on the ANZAC day long weekend, 2013, to protest against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers.
We have seen politicians engage in a race to the bottom in refugee policy. With the re-introduction of offshore processing and [...]
The Refugee Rights Action Network has announced initial details for the World Refugee Day rally:
Sunday 16 June
1pm, Wesley Church corner (cnr William & Hay Sts, Perth city)
Demands of the rally include:
* Free the refugees
* No Pacific “Solution”
* End mandatory detention
We are encouraging [...]
PERTH: Wed 20 February
Venue and time to be confirmed
Click ‘attend’ on Facebook for updates: www.facebook.com/events/413641478719258
***We understand that the location of Wilders’ speech will be kept secret until shortly before the event. His supporters claim that this is for his safety, but in reality it is [...]
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 [...]
Video of yesterday’s protest in solidarity with hunger striking refugees on Nauru.
Watch this video on YouTube Embedded with WP YouTube Lyte.
MEDIA RELEASE: MORE PROTESTS AND HUNGER STRIKES IN NAURU AS CONDITIONS DETERIORATE
Another 38 asylum seekers, Iranian and Afghan, arrived in Nauru this morning (Friday 19 October) taking the number of asylum seekers in the increasingly crowded detention centre to around 330.
But asylum seekers on Nauru continue to protest. A united protest of all [...]
Following a report on ASIO negative Tamil refugees, aired on the ABC’s current affairs programme, 7.30, on Monday night, Serco guards raided and searched the accommodation rooms of ASIO-negative Tamils late Tuesday afternoon.
The refugees demanded to know the reason for the search, but the 15 Serco guards refused to give any reason. There has [...]
Refugee advocates are alarmed at the spate of politically motivated decisions by Immigration Department officers barring visits to detention centres.
In the last week, Ian Rintoul from the Refugee Action Coalition has been barred from visiting Villawood detention centre; Senator Lee Rhiannon’s visit, today’ (Friday), to the residential housing compound of Villawoood was abruptly curtailed, [...]
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