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Human rights and refugee sector unite to call on Australian Government to get people detained in offshore detention to safety in the wake of ICC ruling. Australia’s peak human rights and refugee...

Concerns about systemic cruelty and arbitrariness in Australia’s immigration detention system raised with two United Nations bodies ahead of their visits to Australia Key issues noted about...

Ministers from 69 states will be present but Australian Government ministers noticeably absent when the world gathers in Geneva this week for the largest-ever forum on the global response to...

Today’s repealing of the Medevac legislation will prolong the pain of refugees who have been suffering at the hands of the Australian Government for more than six years, the Refugee Council of...

Associate Professor Savitri Taylor and Dr Joyce Chia Executive Summary How can we keep the executive accountable? This is the great democratic question of our times. It is a question with special...

The Medical Evacuation Response Group (MERG) has responded to the Independent Health Advice Panel (IHAP) Report tabled in Parliament, stating the report shows that in the majority of cases, the...

Australian political leaders regularly claim that Australia has one of the most generous refugee responses in the world. But what do UNHCR’s official statistics for 2018 tell us? In its 2018 Global...

This position paper is published by the Community Refugee Sponsorship (‘CRSI’), an independently branded joint venture between the Refugee Council of Australia, Save the Children Australia, Amnesty...

Author: Joseph Cook The Paladin affair refers to the investigation by the Australian Financial Review of a lucrative government contract to security firm Paladin to provide security services to the...

Key national organisations have banded together to oversee and ensure the timely and orderly assessment of applications for medical transfers under the “Medevac Bill” by creating the Medical...

Disabled refugees face serious barriers to resettlement, new report finds The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA); the National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA); the Federation of Ethnic...

The Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018 – commonly referred to as the Urgent Medical Treatment Bill (UMT)- is set to be voted on in the House of Representatives in...

Today’s historic vote on the urgent medical treatment bill delivered a decisive message to the government: Australians want an end to the abhorrent treatment of people in offshore detention that has...

Introduction This joint report, in partnership with Amnesty International, tells the story of the men who have been sent by Australia to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG), and what has happened to...

Asher Hirsch There are over 14,000 refugees living in limbo in Indonesia. Many came to Indonesia seeking to reach Australia or be resettled to another safe country. However, since the beginning of...

Key points 3,127 people have been sent to Nauru or PNG as part of offshore processing arrangements As of 21 October 2018: 1,278 people (including 52 children) are still on Nauru or PNG (note: this...

Nauru: The facts Around 900 people, including an estimated 95 children, are still living in limbo on Nauru after having been sent there by Australia under its regime of offshore processing. All of...

Six years after the Australian government began sending people seeking asylum to Nauru, there are still around 900 people left on the island, including an estimated 109 children.1 All of them will...

Index: ASA 05/8971/2018 30 August 2018 JOINT OPEN LETTER TO THE PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM LEADERS AND OBSERVERS IN THE CONTEXT OF AUSTRALIA’S ABUSIVE OFFSHORE REFUGEE PROCESSING POLICY We are writing to...

Canberra, Australia: The Refugee Council of Australia has today joined a renewed campaign to pressure Australia’s political leaders to bring the 119 children currently trapped on Nauru, to Australia. ...