Thank you for your support in 2024

Monday, December 23 2024

As the year comes to a close, I want to express our deep gratitude for your incredible support throughout 2024. Through your generosity, we have been able to provide unprecedented levels of legal assistance to thousands of vulnerable people with predicaments that could hardly matter more: seeking protection from persecution, safety from family violence, freedom […]

Saafi* finally reunites with his family after more than a decade

Thursday, December 19 2024

Refugee Legal’s work continues to be shaped by global humanitarian crises that know no barriers – and which continue to tear families apart. Please donate to our End of Year Appeal to power our work to help families reunite here. Saafi*, a 47-year-old Afghan Shia Hazara man, contracted polio as a child, leaving him with […]

Help us fight for justice and freedom for people like Joyce*

Saturday, December 14 2024

The need to protect human rights is more urgent now than ever. Please donate to our End of Year Appeal so we can help people like Joyce* Just months ago, Joyce, a 42-year-old woman from Papua New Guinea (PNG), was served at her home with a ‘Notice of Intention to Remove’ by Australian Border Force, […]

Our End of Year Appeal

Thursday, December 12 2024

On Human Rights Day, the Government’s attempts to circumvent the High Court’s ruling that ankle bracelet monitors and curfews are unconstitutional, are a powerful reminder that the battle for justice continues. Today, amidst these injustices, we are launching our End of Year Appeal. As invoked by the 2024 Human Rights Day theme, ‘Our Rights, Our […]

Refugee Legal Annual Dinner

Sunday, October 13 2024

Dear Colleague, I’d be delighted if you could join us for Refugee Legal’s Annual Dinner to be held on Wednesday 27 November 2024. We are honored to have Zaki Haidari as our Keynote Speaker this year. Zaki is a 2020 Australian Human Rights Commission Human Rights Hero and a Strategic Campaigner at Amnesty International Australia. […]

High Court challenge: ‘YBFZ’

Tuesday, August 6 2024

Today, the High Court sitting in Darwin, will hear a challenge brought by one of our clients to restrictions on his liberty imposed by the Federal Government following his recent release from indefinite immigration detention. (See: YBFZ v. Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs & Anor.) Our client, a 36-year-old stateless man – and […]

High Court considers detainee decision: ABC ‘AM’

Tuesday, August 6 2024

Sabra Lane: Today the High Court of Australia will consider whether new laws to force about 150 people freed from indefinite immigration detention to wear electronic ankle bracelets and abide by a curfew are unconstitutional. The laws were rushed through Federal Parliament last year in response to a previous High Court ruling that indefinite detention […]

High Court to rule on legality of curfew and ankle bracelets for those freed from indefinite immigration detention: ABC News

Tuesday, August 6 2024

The High Court will today be asked to rule on whether a law requiring those freed from indefinite immigration detention last year to wear ankle bracelets and live under a curfew is valid. It is largely a case of the court’s own making. In November the court ruled, on the spot, that indefinite immigration detention […]

Sanvi and Aditi are now able to live in safety in Australia

Friday, June 28 2024

We are delighted to let you know that the initial match of $75,000 from our pro bono law firm partners and now the match donation of $50,000 from Peter McMullin and the Good Business Foundation – have both been reached. Your support and generosity ensures that we can continue to fearlessly defend the rights and […]

A message from David Manne on World Refugee Day

Thursday, June 20 2024

Today, on World Refugee Day, we honour the remarkable strength, courage and resilience of the now unprecedented 130.8 million people who have been forced to flee persecution and violence. On World Refugee Day we are reminded that these global challenges reverberate locally – with many crises and injustices facing those who’ve fled from their homelands […]

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