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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.
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."
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.
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
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 was conducted in 2002 by HREOC. Read the transcripts.
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 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 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