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Aust: 50 Offshore Protests Occurred Around the Country
Monday, 23 July 2018, 4:48 pm | Refugee Action Coalition
50 Offshore Protests Occurred Around the Country To Mark the 5th Anniversary Of The “Pacific Solution” last week. More >>
Rooftop Protest on Christmas Island
Saturday, 26 May 2018, 1:35 pm | Refugee Action Coalition
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE Rooftop Protest on Christmas Island Two Iranian asylum seekers have begun a rooftop protest in the Green 1 compound on Christmas Island. The two asylum seekers got onto the roof around 2.30pm Christmas Island time, ... More >>
Another Refugee Dies on Manus
Tuesday, 22 May 2018, 5:13 pm | Refugee Action Coalition
Initial reports indicate that the refugee was killed when he was hit by a bus around 11am very near to West Haus refugee compound, althoughsome repiorts are saying he jumped from the bus. More >>
Thirty-Five Refugees Leave Nauru for The US
Sunday, 18 February 2018, 3:41 pm | Refugee Action Coalition
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE Thirty-Five Refugees Leave Nauru for The US Another thirty-five refugees, will fly from Nauru to be resettled in the United States this afternoon (Sunday 18 Februray), around 2pm, Nauru time. More >>
Third group of refugees from Manus to the US
Tuesday, 13 February 2018, 2:39 pm | Refugee Action Coalition
A third group of 18 refugees from Manus Island flew from Port Moresby this morning (13 February), to be resettled in the United States. Photos from Port Moresby airport attached. More >>
Twenty-Two Refugees Leave Nauru for the United States
Sunday, 11 February 2018, 5:52 pm | Refugee Action Coalition
Twenty-Two Refugees Leave Nauru for the United States The second group of refugees to leave Nauru for resettlement in the United States are leaving Nauru this afternoon, Nauru time. The 22 refugees are flying from Nauru to the United States, via Fiji, ... More >>
Fears for Two-Week Old Refugee Baby on Nauru
Saturday, 27 January 2018, 12:03 pm | Refugee Action Coalition
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE FEARS FOR TWO-WEEK OLD REFUGEE BABY ON NAURU There are serious concerns for the welfare of a two-week baby boy on Nauru. More >>
Second Group Of Manus Refugees Fly To The US
Tuesday, 23 January 2018, 1:45 pm | Refugee Action Coalition
The second group of refugees to be accepted for resettlement in the US has left Port Moresby for the United States this morning (Tuesday 23 Januaury). More >>
Mentally-Ill Manus Asylum Seeker Needs Urgent Help
Monday, 22 January 2018, 12:01 pm | Refugee Action Coalition
Mentally-Ill Manus Asylum Seeker Needs Urgent Help Refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island have raised serious concerns about the mental health of a 28 year-old Iranian man, they say has become delusional. After the man seriously self-harmed ... More >>
Hunger strikes over immigration detention visit restrictions
Tuesday, 16 January 2018, 12:09 pm | Refugee Action Coalition
Over two hundred detainees at two detention centres, Villawood in Sydney and Maribynong in Melbourne, have declared a hunger strike in protest at visiting restrictions recently announced by Border Force. The detainees have been on hunger strike for more than ... More >>
Nauru Govt Threatens Police to Evict Mentally-Ill Child
Friday, 5 January 2018, 3:58 pm | Refugee Action Coalition
Nauruan government officials, along with a Canstruct supervisor, this morning, (Friday, 5 January, have said that the Nauru police will forcibly evict a 14 year-old mentally-ill child and her family from the medical facilities at RPC 1. More >>
Call for Canstruct Not to Evict Distressed Family on Nauru
Tuesday, 2 January 2018, 7:24 pm | Refugee Action Coalition
Refugee Advocates Call for Canstruct Not to Evict Distressed Family on Nauru Canstruct, the Australian company contracted to provide services to refugees on Nauru has told a distressed Nepalese family that they will return this afternoon (Tuesday) to forcibly ... More >>
Manus Asylum Seekers Expel Ex-Wilson Guards From Camp
Thursday, 28 December 2017, 5:08 pm | Refugee Action Coalition
Asylum seekers at the Hillside Camp, Manus Island have expelled all ex-Wilson Security guards from their camp area. More >>
PNG Supreme Court Rules Major Victory to Manus Asylum Seeker
Saturday, 16 December 2017, 12:15 pm | Refugee Action Coalition
The full bench of the PNG Supreme Court today (Friday) finally handed a ruling formally finding that the human rights of all those sent to Manus Island have been breached. More >>
Australian refugee rights leader in NZ
Monday, 27 November 2017, 9:14 am | Refugee Action Coalition
Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Australian advocacy group, Refugee Action Coalition, in Auckland for a series of meetings with refugee and migrant groups, has called for the newly elected Labour government not to allow the dismissiveness of the Australian ... More >>
Civil Liberties groups demand end to punitive policies
Sunday, 24 April 2011, 4:11 pm | Refugee Action Coalition
Solicitors visiting asylum seekers now incarcerated at Silverwater prison are shocked at what they have seen. Stephen Blanks, solicitor and secretary of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties briefly interviewed two of the 22 (mostly Iranians and Kurds) ... More >>
Refugee protest spreads to Curtin
Sunday, 24 April 2011, 11:52 am | Refugee Action Coalition
Sunday April 24, 2011, 7:00am Ian Rintoul Refugee Action Coalition • Refugee protest spreads to Curtin • Refugee supporter banned from visiting • Message from Curtin hunger striker A hunger strike and sit-in involving 300 and more asylum seekers at ... More >>
Iraqi Hunger Strike On Christmas Island
Saturday, 17 April 2010, 10:24 am | Refugee Action Coalition
Another protest hunger strike has begun inside the Christmas Island detention centre. Five Iraqi asylum seekers began a hunger strike last night. They are now on the football oval inside the detention centre with banners reading, "No Life Without Freedom" More >>
Distressed Asylum Boat off Christmas Island
Sunday, 7 February 2010, 11:51 am | Refugee Action Coalition
A maritime rescue mission is underway off Christmas Island after messages were received (Saturday) afternoon from a boat of asylum seekers in the vicinity of Christmas Island. More >>
Merak Refugees Face "Evacuation"
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 10:46 am | Refugee Action Coalition
Refugee advocates call for restraint and guarantees from Australia and Indonesia for safety and future of the asylum seekers More >>
