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16 DEC 16
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134 women helped this year in Australia’s only specialist clinic tackling gender based persecution

It’s been nearly two years since Emily Singh, ASRC Human Rights Lawyer launched Australia’s only Women’s Clinic to assist vulnerable females suffering from gender-based persecution, including political, religious, race and nationality-based claims. Women are an especially vulnerable group within the asylum seeker community as gender based claims aren’t explicitly enshrined in the UN Refugee Convention.

15 DEC 16
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Important information for people being processed under the Fast Track system

This information is for people seeking asylum who are being processed under the Fast Track system – this means people who arrived by boat in between 13 August 2012 and 31 December 2013, who have never been taken to Manus Island or Nauru. All people in this group have now been sent a letter inviting

06 DEC 16
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An Australian born out of the Bosnian War

By Dzenana, ASRC volunteer We lived in a town called Konjic, in what is now known as Bosnia and Herzegovina, nestled in the Dinaric Alps 50kms south of Sarajevo. We had Serb and Croat neighbours, but Konjic was a Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) town and at the time, it didn’t seem likely that the border skirmishes

05 DEC 16
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ASRC Catering clean up at Social Enterprise Awards

Can you smell what the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre is cooking? The ASRC Catering team claimed an award at the Social Enterprise Awards last Wednesday, taking home the award for the best business with less than 20 full-time employees. The team were one of 26 finalists in eight categories selected by an independent panel, and

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre blog

134 women helped this year in Australia’s only specialist clinic tackling gender based persecution

Important information for people being processed under the Fast Track system

An Australian born out of the Bosnian War

ASRC Catering clean up at Social Enterprise Awards

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