Request for commitment for Afghan refugees
NCCA-ACRT Letter to the Prime Minister |
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The NCCA-ACRT request commitment for Afghan refugees Like us, you must be feeling desperate about the situation in Afghanistan. We have heard reports from many of our Afghan people who have family in Afghanistan or worrying about the related issues they see as emerging in Pakistan Therefore we are all praying for a generous response from Australia to the situation of the Afghan people, in-country and in Australia, at this time. As part of ACRT, The Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project (BASP) is writing letters as are Taskforce members separately and severally to their supporters with the asks below. The NCCA-ACRT letter to the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison can be downloaded here - pdf 210817 NCCA ACRT PM AFG (193 KB) The NCCA-ACRT have also sent one to Minister Hawke and Trent Zimmerman MP for North Sydney, Dave Sharma MP for Wentworth.
We give what comfort we can to those who are so traumatised by what is happening and we extend our love and support to them.
You can help too Please consider writing to the Prime Minister, the Minister for Immigration, the Labor Leader (addresses below) and your own MP. You may include the three asks below from The Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project (BASP) Dear ..., We ask that Australia:
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Australian asylum policy
ACRT Media Release |
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30 June 2021 7,000 are waiting in limbo, need safety Currently, there are over 7,000 refugees waiting offshore. These people have already been granted permanent humanitarian visas to enter Australia but are still waiting offshore after been denied entry when the borders closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Stuck in transit, many live without the right to work, study or travel freely. Families with sick children cannot access the healthcare they desperately need. Many have been stuck in this uncertainty for years, frightened and hoping for a better future. Little has been done by the government to change the barriers to entry for the vast majority of these 7000 people. The Refugee Council of Australia (RCA) and UNHCR have called on the government to apply a blanket travel exemption for humanitarian visa holders, advocating for all of them to be allowed into Australia to start a new life – as they were promised. Since August 2020, Australia has rejected 1,251 out of 1,826 applications for travel exemptions from refugees already granted protection by the government, according to Department of Home Affairs data obtained by SBS. Australia’s human rights record The latest tracker by the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) showed no improvement in Australia’s human rights record in 2020, in particular relating to those most at risk of rights abuses. A HRMI spokesperson said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disabilities, people with low socioeconomic status, and refugees and asylum seekers were shown to be at risk of violations of every right measured by the tracker.
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