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  1. Women face worsening violence on Nauru

    biblical movies that we grew up on look tame,鈥 Pamela Curr told a forum on women in Nauru in Sydney on ... in Iran; and state-sanctioned rape of Tamil women by the Sri Lankan army. When they embark on the ... women have survived horrific stories and made their way across the sea only to wind up on Nauru.鈥 Thea, ...

  2. Photos: Sydney International Women's Day march

    elsewhere, abortion rights, equal pay and for Turkey to end its war on Afrin in Northern Syria. March 12, ... leave, migrant workers' rights, sex workers' rights, an end to sexual harassment on campus and ...

  3. Live blog: Refugee activists converge on WA detention centre

    protest ends in dance-off 1:30pm, Sun April 28 Photos taken of refugee rights activists on the Kalgoorlie ... pipeline. refugee-rights-activists-on-kalgoorlie-pipeline.jpg Refugee rights activists on the Kalgoorlie ... released and it seems at least one will face charges. All three have move-on notices and have to leave the ...

  4. Mandatory detention: A history of bipartisan cruelty

    mainland while their claims were assessed, the 438 men, women and children on the Tampa were sent to the ... world鈥檚 most famous bands to one where the detentions centres it presides over are described as 鈥渉ell on ... Hostel. Some of the migrants who first met and jammed at these hostels went on to form iconic bands such ...

  5. Molan lays bare Liberal plan to win election with cruelty to refugees

    system Liberal Senator Jim Molan was rehearsing his lines to promote this cruel system on ABC鈥檚 Q&A, ... questions in hope of a minute on TV, gave her a wide berth was at the sight of police officers standing ... by refugees on Manus Island that happened the following day. Interestingly, another of my tweets did ...

  6. Refugees: Bring them here, let them stay

    International and Human Rights Watch report on Nauru, the Women on Nauru at Risk Report, the documentary Chasing ... outside more than 40 Coalition and Labor MP's offices across the country on August 15. The next day, ... released last year, which detailed cases of sexual abuse on Nauru. Getting information out of detention ...

  7. Refugee crisis, activism and alternatives

    return to Europe, and most of the passengers died in the Holocaust they were fleeing. After World War II, ... World at War report said in 2014 there were 19.5 million refugees and close to 60 million people ... billions on keeping asylum seekers out. In Europe this includes building walls, like those in construction ...

  8. Supporting refugees and beating back bipartisan cruelty

    days of protests by refugees on Nauru, landmark court decisions, the Nauru Files, politicians鈥 offices ... forced to suffer the most. Western superpowers started the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Australia is ... countries are the greatest climate vandals, one of the triggers of the Syrian civil war. The rich nations ...

  9. We need to continue to protest with refugees for justice

    least 20 women have been sexually assaulted on Nauru in the past year. There is widespread corruption in ... managed to smuggle out a letter from one of the women. It detailed the shocking conditions 鈥 including ... continual harassment by guards 鈥 that pregnant women and kids under the age of 4 had to endure. It finished ...

  10. Welcome to what?

    locations across Australia on October 22 as part of Welcome to Australia events organised under the theme of ... gave a personal story of how her family fled war and persecution in Europe, ultimately being resettled ... policy is, with Labor taking the lead on many of its worst aspects, such as offshore resettlement. Give ...

  11. Why you should protest at CHOGM

    in which colonialists of a previous era used to boast that the 鈥渟un never sets鈥 on the places where ... associates. CHOGM today is marked by both these characteristics: on the one hand the oppressive reality of ... imperialist business interests pushing their agendas; on the other hand, a bland talk shop set against ...

  12. US refugee deal is inhumane politicking

    and reeks of political expediency. Devil in the detail The deal announced on November 13 is to give ... resettlement. Turnbull has refused to answer questions on the number of people who will be resettled, saying it ... president and will be able to veto the deal. Trump鈥檚 position on the deal is unknown, although he said in ...