Thanks for coming to hear Rev Tim Costello at St George’s Church! Here are a range of helpful resources and site for follow-up:
Overall comprehensive resource on refuges- Refugee Council of Australia RCOA
- www.refugeecouncil.org.au
- Statistics ( International/National): https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/statistics/
- Get facts on refugees: https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/get-facts/
- Australia’s Refugee and Humanitarian Program – How Australia compares with the world (https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/getfacts/statistics/intl/global-trends-2017/
- Intake submission on Australia’s 2017-2018: https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/publications/2017-2018-submission-australias-refugee-humanitarian-program/
- Refugees contribute: https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/refugeescontribute/
- Key resources: https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/resources-home/key-resources/
UNHCR – United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UN refugee agency)
- http://www.unhcr.org/en-au
- Helpful explanations of refugee, asylum seeker and migrant. Look up FAQ & Glossary: http://www.unhcr.org/en-au/asylum-and-migration.html
- 1951 Convention and Protocol for the status of refugees -a key international legal instrument to protect rights of refugees – http://www.unhcr.org/en-au/3b66c2aa10
Australian Govt – Home Affairs- Fact Sheet on Australia’s Refugee & Humanitarian program
https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/corporate/information/fact-sheets/60refugee
Australian Parliamentary Library – Asylum seekers & Refugees: What are the facts? 2015
Australian Human Rights Commission – Face the Facts – Asylum seekers and Refugees
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/face-facts-asylum-seekers-and-refugees
Faith Based approach for advocacy on Asylum seekers- Common Grace
- www.commongrace.org.au/people_seeking_asylum
- Write to your MP template letter about #KidsOffNauru here
Practical financial support for refugees in urgent need – World Vison
Kids Off Nauru Campaign
Practical volunteering and frontline support for local Refugee groups – NSW Humanitarian Hub
Training for Advocacy work & volunteering – right track site
https://www.righttrack.org.au/about
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre – Sydney
Parliament on King – Catering Firm
Hi Jessica,
This is an amazing set of resources, thank you. I’ve written to Pete Penn asking if there’s going to be a transcript of Tim Costello’s presentation on 10 November.
I wonder also if you’d like to broaden the emphasis on your website to “Kids Off Everyone Off.” Everyone (for example Gillian Triggs, and UNHCR) is saying that Everyone Off is important, and that the focus on Kids Off is because this is easier for the general public to understand. However, the risk is that once the children are off, the others get forgotten. Could one of the Kids Off resources be amended so it’s about Everyone Off? Thanks again for your great work, Rebecca Bishop