Questions about refugees? Get the facts
RAV Vic produces a Refugee Facts flyer, updated with relevant and timely information from time to time.
This is the newest version, updated in June 2022.
You’re welcome to download and share it.
Free the refugees! Let them land, let them stay!
RAV Vic produces a Refugee Facts flyer, updated with relevant and timely information from time to time.
This is the newest version, updated in June 2022.
You’re welcome to download and share it.
Join these events, demanding freedom for refugees and permanent protection.
Every Monday at 6.30pm, Kathleen Syme library, Carlton
RAC Vic has made a submission to the Department of Home Affairs review of Australia’s migration system.
RAC’s recommendations include:
RAC has called out the systemic “torture” of people held in Australian immigration detention facilities (IDFs) in a submission to a United Nations body.
We have called for an end to mandatory detention, for refugees and asylum-seekers on Nauru and in Papua New Guinea to be brought here, as well as a raft of legal changes and a Senate inquiry. RAC continues to call for all refugees to be given permanent protection.
The submission was made to the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture, outlining how the Australian government has been, and still is, breaching the UN Convention Against Torture (CAT) and its optional protocol (OPCAT).
OPCAT inspectors visited Australian IDFs and prisons in October but left the country in protest after being denied entry by NSW and Queensland.
The CAT definition of “torture” includes “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” of detainees. Our submission points to examples such as:
RAC has sent a copy of its submission to the Commonwealth Ombudsman, whose inspectors monitor CAT compliance between UN inspector visits.
To help end government breaches of human rights obligations, RAC’s recommendations include:
Read the RAC submission in full.
Read RAC’s letter regarding the submission sent to Ministers.
RAC’s Art Meets Activism art auction on Saturday 12 November was a huge success, with more than 100 attending and 90 per cent of artworks sold.
The in-person auction and online, silent auction raised more than $40,000 between them.
Refugees whose works sold received 100 per cent of the bid price. The remaining income, after expenses, will be split between the Brigidine Asylum Seeker Project (BASP) and RAC.
RAC would like to thank the artists whose generous donations of their work made the event possible, sponsors, the auctioneer and those who attended.
BASP uses donations to help feed, house and clothe refugees and asylum-seekers. RAC will use its share of the proceeds to step up the campaign for refugee freedom.