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The Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN) advocates for the rights of refugees in the region. RTs and follows are not endorsements.

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Monthly Newsletter (April 2026)

Our News Briefs bring you the latest highlights from the advocacy efforts of APRRN and our members, as well as keeping you informed on upcoming events and activities.

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On 28 April 2026, join us for Women, Girls and Immigration Detention: Exploring Gender-Responsive Alternatives, an online event looking at the gendered impacts of detention.

28 April 2026
9am EDT | Online

🔗 Register now: https://t.co/DUMTxWm0iD

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Monthly Newsletter (March 2026)

Our News Briefs bring you the latest highlights from the advocacy efforts of APRRN and our members, as well as keeping you informed on upcoming events and activities.

Read Here: https://t.co/gDqvWAV9S6

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While significant progress has been made worldwide, some countries in Asia and the Pacific continue to maintain gender-discriminatory nationality provisions. Several UN agencies, regional academics and APRRN member and former APRRN SG, Chris Eades from CWS took part.

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On 27 March, APRRN's Co-SG, Klaus participated in the opening of the Asia Pacific Launch of the GCENR Legal Atlas on Gender Discriminatory Nationality Laws, which was co-hosted by Subin Mulmi, Executive Director of NFA,
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and new Deputy Chair of APRRN’s South Asia Working Group and also on our International Board.
This innovative online tool maps and analyses gender-discriminatory nationality laws globally and highlights their impacts on women, children, and families.

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responses for #refugees, #migrants and communities affected by #forceddisplacement.

Thank you #RefugeeCommunitiesAssociationofAustralia for creating space for this dialogue.

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critical questions that still matter: Australia’s role at a time of shrinking humanitarian resources, its response to people seeking asylum including those impacted by Manus Island policies, what meaningful regional leadership looks like in Asia and the Pacific, and how

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processes such as the #BaliProcess are contributing to responses to trafficking and smuggling.

At APRRN, we believe celebrating progress must go hand in hand with honest reflection on the gaps that remain. These conversations are necessary to strengthen policy and improve

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@hafsar20 from APRRN attended this important conversation reflecting on multiculturalism, refugee protection, and Australia’s legacy of resettling more than 1 million refugees since World War II.

While recognising this important milestone, APRRN also welcomed the space to raise

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including on Thailand’s recent positive steps to provide work rights for thousands of refugees and the possibility of adapting the model in other countries in our region.

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On 26 March, our Co-Secretary General, Klaus Dik Nielsen took part in the 55th Anniversary of the Independence and National Day of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh in Bangkok. Invited by one of APRRN’s many external partners and allies,

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the Ambassador to Thailand, Faiyaz Murshid Kazi, Klaus and Midnight Poonkasetwattana, Executive Director of APCOM, and a new APRRN member, had exchanges with other diplomatic missions, representatives from UN agencies and Thai parliamentarians and policy-makers,

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#AfghanWomen lawyers who are no longer allowed to practise under the Taliban.

We remain committed to creating more space for women with lived experience to speak for themselves, lead, and shape the decisions that affect their lives.

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At #CSW70, APRRN’s Co-Secretary General, @hafsar20 joined the @SSI_tweets delegation to speak on women’s access to justice and the urgent need to include women from the most marginalised communities in global conversations.

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Too often, their voices remain absent from the spaces where decisions are made.
At CSW70, APRRN was honoured to help bring some of those voices into the room including through sharing the testimony of a #Rohingya woman from Cox’s Bazar and highlighting our work supporting

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Monthly Newsletter (February 2026)

Our News Briefs bring you the latest highlights from the advocacy efforts of APRRN and our members, as well as keeping you informed on upcoming events and activities.

Read Here: https://t.co/XdMqqWMrDC

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Our Co-SG is speaking at this event and is currently attending CSW70. If you are in town, we warmly invite you to join the event.
We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to SSI for their generous support in making Hafsar’s in-person participation at CSW70 possible.

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The Rohingya crisis at a crossroads: the ICJ, international law and the Myanmar election

Date & Time: Wed, 18 Mar, 10am - 11:30am WIT
@OzRefugeeCounc

Register now: https://t.co/1bewdR3CpF