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End Mandatory Detention For Refugees Web Ring

Australians working on behalf of asylum seekers and refugees

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.

Australians for Just Refugee Programs is an umbrella organisation working on a national campaign strategy.

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.  Look here for other groups to join or support. Page provided by the Safecom Project.

Check out the End Mandatory Detention for Refugees web ring. The ring navigation panel is above.

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.

See also ChilOut in the United Kingdom
"www.ChilOut.org.uk has been formed as an urgent response to the human rights emergency in Immigration Detention Centres (IDCs) in Australia. The desperate plight of hundreds of children incarcerated behind razor wire in IDCs across Australia demands our immediate attention and response."
"www.ChilOut.org.uk will also raise awareness about the increasing detention of children in United Kingdom (UK) detention and removal centres."

Further information about asylum seekers and refugees in Australia

Australian Broadcasting Commission feature on asylum seekers

The Melbourne Age feature on asylum seekers

Muliticultural Australia examined - The Australian

HREOC information on asylum seekers
Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission information about asylum seekers.

National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
This inquiry is being conducted in 2002 by  HREOC.

Refugee Council of Australia

Amnesty International Australia - Refugees

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 stands for Department of Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs. DIMIA is responsible for our immigration detention centres, with day to day running contracted out to ACM. Read our government's own fact sheets on our refugee program, detention and border control.

Overseas and international organisations

UNHCR and Refugees
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