Protest

More than 100 refugees, who have been held in a tiny boat near Merak port in Indonesia for over seven months, have been moved to the Tanjung Pinang detention centre. They now face very bad […]

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGENT ACTION SRI LANKAN ACTIVISTS THREATENED On 2 March, a Sri Lankan news website, Lankanewsweb, published the names of human rights defenders and journalists featured on a list it alleged was compiled by […]

We will not remain silent while Tamil refugees suffer out of the sight of the world’s media. That was the message to the Australian High Commission in London on Wednesday 10 March. That date marked […]

“Australian government should act to end this suffering now” – “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung at 10 March demonstration http://chinaworker.info/en/content/news/1000/ 150 days on a cramped, squalid boat. That is the ordeal faced by 254 refugees from […]

Internationally many organisations condemn the Australian and Indonesian governments for their failure to grant asylum rights for the Tamil-speaking refugees in Merak, Indonesia. Below is a joint statement which has been produced by a number […]

International Day of action : Please join the protest in Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Canada, UK and many other countries : all protest are held in front of Australian high commissions in respective countries.  JOIN THE PROTEST […]

Please use the model letter below- draft for International Women’s Day (march 8th) to circulate to all and sundry and ask them to send to Rudd. Letter can be sent via feed back form that can […]

Human rights defender Pattani Razeek has been missing since he was apparently abducted on 11 February in the town of Polonnaruwa, in Sri Lanka’s North Central Province.  He may be the victim of an enforced […]