Sarah Stephen
Asylum seekers in Australian detention centres and the refugee-rights movement have for years tried to convey the awful human cost of the mandatory detention system. But it took the horrific experience of Cornelia Rau, a mentally ill
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SYDNEY — On February 12, exactly 40 years after the legendary 1965 Freedom Ride, 200 supporters farewelled the Freedom Ride 2005 bus as it departed from Sydney University to follow the original route. After a welcome to Gadigal Land of the Eora
Sarah Stephen, Sydney
The Refugee Action Coalition held a protest outside the immigration department's offices on February 10 to call for an end to mandatory detention in light of the Cornelia Rau scandal.
RAC activist Ian Rintoul condemned the
Barry Healy
A new and extensive investigation into Haiti's human rights situation has found that conditions in the country have sharply deteriorated since the elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was snatched from the country by US forces in
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