A coalition of Victorian groups campaigning for rights for refugees in Australia

Melbourne Law School Public Forum

Please join the Melbourne Law Students Society Institute for International Law and the Humanities & Melbourne Social Equity Institute in The Refugee Crisis: Is Manus Island the Solution, public forum! This seems like it will be an amazing discussion! Date: Thursday August 8th, 2013 Time: 1:00-2:00pm Venue: G08, Ground Floor Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street Carlton. Attendance is FREE but booking essential! Please see the attached flyer for more information.

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World Refugee Day Rally 2013

  World Refugee Day Rally 2013 Welcome Refugees Close Manus Island, Close Nauru End mandatory detention; Stop deportations to danger; Honour the Refugee Convention Sunday 16 June, 12 noon Gather @ Exhibition Building, Nicholson Street, near Gertrude Street (beside Carlton Gardens) Catch 86 or 96 tram or walk from Parliament Station Music & Speakers inc: Graham Thom – Amnesty International Misha Coleman – Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce Michele O’Neil – State Secretary Textile, Clothing & Footwear Union of Australia Adam…

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Release Ranjini Day – Free the ASIO Refugees

To mark the one year anniversary of her detention, on May 10th the Refugee Action Collective is hosting a Release Ranjini Day event. Our government is holding more than 50 refugees in indefinite detention because of an adverse ASIO security assessment. People like Ranjini and her sons (pictured) are not security threats- they have not been charged with war crimes, or terrorist acts, or any other illegal activity. But they have been found to be genuine refugees, in need of…

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Release Ranjini – Release Them All

Melbourne, Wednesday 8 May, — Hundreds of Australians will hold rallies across the nation on Friday to demand the release of Ranjini and her three children, as well as the other 55 ASIO rejected refugees trapped in a legal black-hole in Australian detention centres. From Cairns to Perth, people will gather to implore the Immigration Minister, Brendan O’Connor, to invoke the Australian ideal of a “fair go” and use his power to release these people into the community. Simultaneous “Release…

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ASIO REFUGEE HUNGER STRIKERS REFUSE TO BUDGE

Melbourne, Tuesday – Hunger- striking refugees have refused requests by guards to abandon their protest in the grounds of the MITA detention centre in Melbourne. “The guards have asked us to move inside, away from the outside area. We told them we are not moving, that we are determined to see this through until there is a resolution one way or the other,” one of the hunger-strikers said today. “Our bodies are getting weaker but we still feel very strong…

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