The Detention Rights Advocacy Program (DRAP) provides trauma-informed, remote and phone-based support to people seeking asylum and refugees in Nauru and PNG, and onshore in a limited capacity.

DRAP provides a critical lifeline to people – including assessment, information, referrals, advocacy, emotional support and crisis response through Triage and case management services. DRAP writes welfare notifications, provides referrals to legal and mental health services and advocates for access to vital medical treatment, and release from detention. DRAP advocates for the medical evacuation of people from offshore detention to Australia, and supports people to engage in resettlement pathways to a safe third country. DRAP monitors conditions of detention, and documents human rights abuses.

ASRC’s mission is to end mandatory, arbitrary and indefinite detention and offshore detention so that people can live safely, with their human rights and dignity upheld, and rebuild their lives.