Australians working on behalf of asylum seekers and refugees
View the Google Directory entry for Refugee Rights in Australia
Many popular web sites can be accessed from the Google directory.
Refugees
Australia National Directory - the most concise listing of Australian
Refugee groups available on the Internet. Includes quick facts, taking action
links and a contacts page with email addresses and phone numbers of groups in
Australia.
A Just Australia - Australians for Just Refugee
Programs is an umbrella organisation working on a national campaign
strategy.
Rural Australians for
Refugees is "an informal group of concerned citizens working hard to
turn this country away from an inhumane and bizarre policy. [...] There are
sixty seven RAR groups throughout Australia reaching out to approximately 10,000
members and friends and we're still growing strong."
Spare rooms for Refugees
is helping to find accommodation for refugees on their release.
Australian Refugee Lobby,
Support and Action Groups
This information hub has links to many other organisations working on
behalf of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia. Page provided by the Safecom Project.
Visit the Refugee Media Space.
Refugee Media Space is an archive for eye-witness accounts from Woomera from
refugees and supporters, refugee-related news (mainly from Adelaide, the nearest Australian capital city), practical information on
how to write and visit detained asylum seekers, an extensive links resource,
plus items of interest from mainstream and autonomous media feeds.
Mahboba's Promise is the work of
Australian Mahboba Rawi, herself an Afghan refugee of tremendous courage. With
help from volunteers and donors, Mahoba's Promise directly assists women and
children in Afghanistan, providing food, shelter, employment, schooling.
This site gives news of Australia's asylum seeker detention centres in Nauru and P.N.G. [ Manus Island ] and runs campaigns to assist them. Read The Cry of the Camp Children, Nauru.
Go to the Refugee Council of Australia
links page for more links...
The Australian Refugee Association seeks
to enable refugees to settle in Australia with independence and dignity, and to
develop and achieve their aspirations and opportunities in life. It provides
advice, assistance and advocacy in settlement, migration, employment, community
education and policy.
Further information about asylum seekers and refugees in Australia
Australian Broadcasting Commission feature on asylum seekers
The Sydney Morning
Herald feature on immigration
The
Melbourne Age feature on immigration
The Melbourne Age feature on asylum seekers
Muliticultural Australia examined - The Australian
Amnesty International Australia - Refugees
HREOC
information on asylum seekers
Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission information about
asylum seekers.
HREOC's
National
Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
This inquiry was conducted in 2002 by HREOC. Read
the transcripts.
Australian
Journal of Human Rights, Information Relevant to Refugee Law in Australia
Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community
Education
University of NSW Centre for Refugee Research
Australian government web sites
HREOC information on asylum seekers
Refugee Review Tribunal
The
Detention of Boat People
Department of the Parliamentary Library - Current Issues Brief February
2001
DIMIA Fact Sheets
DIMIA
Statistics
DIMIA stands for Department of Immigration & Multicultural &
Indigenous Affairs. DIMIA is responsible for our immigration detention
centres, with day to day running contracted out previously to ACM, now to
another private corporation. Read our government's
own fact sheets on our refugee program, detention and border control.
NSW Refugee Health Service "We aim to promote the health of people from a refugee background living in NSW by assisting refugees, and the health professionals who work with them."
Overseas and international organisations
UNHCR
UNHCR stands for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
U.S. Committee for Refugees
Canadian Council for
Refugees
Swedish Network of
Asylum and Refugee Support Groups
ChilOut in the United Kingdom