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Happy (belated) birthday to Sydney Multicultural Community Services!🎂 A pleasure for RACS to celebrate your 42nd anniversary alongside Rosa, your team and MC Craig Foster. Thanks for four decades of important work you have been doing with migrant communities in Sydney!
#refugeeswelcome

RACS spoke to a packed room of people for December's Palestinian community information session held in partnership with SSI

Visit our website for information on upcoming sessions 👉 racs.org.au/information-se…

🟠 New year, new contact information!

Do you need protection visa, family reunion or citizenship help?

Here are the two simple ways you can reach out to RACS for free legal support 👇

Looking for a new start in the new year? 🌞

We're looking to fill a number of positions in both our legal and operations teams, so if you're passionate about making a difference in the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum, click here! racs.org.au/work-with-us

And that's a wrap for our outreach service at the Auburn Centre for Community! Cumberland City Council

This year alone saw our amazing lawyers and volunteers attend over 3000 outreach appointments with refugees in need of critical legal support.

Please note that the RACS office will be closed for the holiday period from 4pm 22nd December to 9am 8th January.

⭐ Congratulations to RACS paralegals Lainey and Sarah on their recent admission to legal practice in NSW ⭐

The legal support RACS provides to refugees would be impossible without the passion and dedication of our lawyers, paralegals, practical legal trainees and volunteers.

Australia's representatives to the United Nations's Global Refugee Forum - including RACS Ambassador and @amnestyOZ campaigner Zaki Haidari - have called on urgent action to be taken in response to the growing global refugee crisis.

Read more here: loom.ly/-oJZjQ4

Since the Resolution of Status announcement back in February, the RACS team has been there to help over 2,000 refugees (and counting!) apply for permanent protection in Australia.

Over 700 RoS visas have been secured to this date🙌

#refugeerights #refugeeswelcome

The recent release of people from indefinite detention has prompted discussions - and arguments - about everything from community safety, double standards, the rights of citizens and democracy. Read more here: loom.ly/w31jMLw

As a refugee I’m proud to representing 🇦🇺 civil society at this year's UNHCR Global Refugee Forum. The forum is about to start in Geneva, it brings together govts & NGOs from around the world to combat the global refugee crisis
Amnesty International Australia 🕯 Refugee Council of Australia
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🎉 We have a winner! 🎉 Sarah Dale, RACS's Centre Director and Principal Solicitor, has won the LawSocietyNSW's Community Service Award! #refugeerights #auslaw

#OTD 75 years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was declared and accepted by the General Assembly of the United Nations. Read RACS's reflection on the UDHR and our work: loom.ly/HfwdZsM

New polling from the UNSW Kaldor Centre shows discrepancies between what Australians think we do for refugees and what our policies and practices actually are: loom.ly/Jru5-qk #auspol #refugees

👏 Good luck to our Principal Solicitor & Centre Director, Sarah Dale at the LawSocietyNSW Member Awards tonight - we couldn't think of anyone more deserving!
#lawyers #auslaw

A 37-year-old refugee has launched a High Court challenge after rushed Government legislation required him to wear an electronic ankle bracelet and be subjected to a curfew.

David Manne Refugee Legal
Read more: loom.ly/OAOWJQ0

ICYMI - UNSW Kaldor Centre's Madeline Gleeson's timely critique of Australia's mandatory detention practices.

'Let us not wait until the next “crisis” to rush through ill-conceived and untested laws. Matters this important are worthy of a more careful and considered debate.'