Refugee Rights Action Network

  • RRAN Lecture Series 1: Australia's punitive responses to people seeking asylum

    • Online

    ON-LINE EVENT, STARTS 6:30PM WA TIME (9:30PM AEDST) https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85094854208 Australian policies imposed on people seeking asylum who arrive by boat are punitive. This includes mandatory and indefinite detention in Australia and/or offshore, for anyone who arrives by boat. For those recognised as a refugee in Australia, it also includes being granted a temporary…

  • Block The Bill #NoPhonesNoLife

    • Boorloo/Perth & Walyalup/Fremantle

    The Minister for Home Affairs, Peter Dutton is again trying to gain powers to remove mobile phones from people held in immigration detention centres which would obstruct asylum seekers from being able to contact lawyers, family and social supports as well as reporting on abuse within the centres. “They are going to confiscate our phones and that will disconnect us from our family…

  • Escape From Manus - Book Event with Jaivet Ealom

    • Boorloo/Perth & Walyalup/Fremantle

    We invite you to attend this event promoting Jaivet Ealom's 'Escape From Manus'. We will have the privilege of hearing from Jaivet and sharing some excerpts from the book. "Born and raised in Burma as a Rohingya Muslim, Jaivet Ealom was a minority. The Rohingya were not recognised by Myanmar as Indigenous citizens: their access to education was blocked; they weren’t permitted…

  • Eight Years is Enough: Permanent Safety Now!

    • Boorloo/Perth & Walyalup/Fremantle

    19 July this year marks the eighth anniversary of the announcement by then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, that “any asylum-seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will...have no prospect of being resettled in Australia...and will never permanently live in Australia".