“I knew from the age of four that I was gay and by the time I was a teenager, I knew I could not stay in my country.” “I convinced my parents that I should study outside of Iran to improve my job prospects. Living abroad I finally had tasted freedom. I realised that I
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Each Friday our principal solicitor Carolyn Graydon shares with the entire ASRC team a “weekly good news” update from the Human Rights Law Program. This week has been a particularly hard one as we saw the Senate vote to repeal the life-saving Medevac legislation. At a time when our Government yet again showed utter contempt
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People seeking asylum in Australia are being denied justice and the right to live safely here. People like Yasin* and his wife Amal*, who came to Australia seeking our protection when it was no longer safe for their young family to live in Iraq. Soon after arriving in Australia the family were recognised as refugees
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Help RIGHT human wrongs People seeking asylum in Australia are being failed by our broken asylum system. Those who came here seeking our protection are instead being punished by our Government and denied access to justice thanks to unfair laws that are intentionally complex and inconsistent and designed so people’s cases for protection fail. Right
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