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[Amnesty International Aotearoa NZ @AmnestyNZ]

‼️Last chance to apply for funding to make your human rights idea a reality‼️

Applications for the Gary Ware Award, our new human rights award for youth, close tomorrow 30th September!

Apply 👉 https://t.co/QXb17BHisp

[Graham Thom @drgrahamthom]

Settled after one day of damming evidence, what else was going to come to light? Still no solutions for those still held offshore though but more costs to the Australian taxpayer for this debacle, what a disgrace @amnestyOz

[Amnesty NSW RefNet @AmnestyRefNet]

What great news for the Tamil family! 🙌🏼
Times are tough atm for all of us but let us please remember how fortunate we are, and keep those in detention in our thoughts ❤️ #WithRefugees #BringThemHere https://t.co/fuRBdg8Pap

[Amnesty NSW RefNet @AmnestyRefNet]

“A year ago, Iman Shirinia was looking forward to being released from immigration detention, and finally calling Australia home.

Now, he's fighting fires and risking his life for his adopted homeland.” 🙏🏼 refugees are not a burden but a blessing https://t.co/bgtw78gUcV

[Amnesty NSW RefNet @AmnestyRefNet]

“The medevac laws, designed to give doctors more say in medical transfers of refugees, have been repealed.” 😓 #Manus #Nauru
https://t.co/o0gxiZBM6P

[ASRC @ASRC1]

#Breaking At What Cost report: offshore processing over 3 yrs to cost $1.2bn, $573,ooo each person a year, on top of the $9bn spent since 2016. ⁦@janafavero⁩ “Morrison govt must negotiate to find permanent solution to urgently resettle people” https://t.co/huZiueEEig

[Behrouz Boochani @BehrouzBoochani]

I just arrived in New Zealand. So exciting to get freedom after more than six years. I have been invited by Word Festival in Christchurch and will participate in an event here. Thank you to all the friends who made this happen.

[Amnesty NSW RefNet @AmnestyRefNet]

“Kurdish Iranian refugee and journalist – a multiple award-winner for documenting life in Australia’s offshore detention system – has left Papua New Guinea”. What great news!🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 https://t.co/bf75VoEV0s

[Amnesty NSW RefNet @AmnestyRefNet]

Today is World Mental Health Day 🌍 we urge everyone 2day to acknowledge the suffering mental health of refugees globally, and of those on Manus and Nauru, where specialist medical care & in-patient psychiatric care is lacking. Refugees, we r here & we support u, stay strong 🙌🏼

[Amnesty NSW RefNet @AmnestyRefNet]

Mark your calendars for this rally to keep the Medevac Bill! “Join us to demand parliament keep the Medevac Bill, and that all the refugees and asylum seekers in PNG or Nauru are brought to Australia”
https://t.co/grMiI9nWND

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

Aid workers around the world put themselves at risk to help save and improve the lives of others.

On #WorldHumanitarianDay and every day, we must ensure that they are protected from harm, as required by international law.

[Amnesty NSW RefNet @AmnestyRefNet]

It’s World Humanitarian Day! Today is about acknowledging and appreciating the empowering and inspiring work that humanitarians are doing daily, across the Globe. The compassion and kindness exercised by aid workers is truly incredible 🙌🏼 https://t.co/ua1DlGgJIk

[Amnesty NSW RefNet @AmnestyRefNet]

Wow! What an uplifting story...local doctors in Wollongong are ‘sleeping out’ indefinitely in protest of the mistreatment of the refugees on Manus and Nauru. #BringThemHere #WithRefugees https://t.co/ovvkHbIirc

[Kon Karapanagiotidis @Kon__K]

Funny how I never heard from these “free speech champions” when the Coalition Government threatened doctors & nurses with two years jail if they shared publicly the horrors that they saw on #Manus and #Nauru. Almost like they care only for speech that protects their privilege 🤔

[Kon Karapanagiotidis @Kon__K]

Nades is 2 years old, she’s been locked up for 15 months in a detention centre because her family sought asylum.

On her birthday she simply wanted a cake but Dutton wouldn’t allow this

Is this what we are becoming. Anyone feel safer? I just feel shame.

https://t.co/XJXNMzAq35

[UNHCR Australia, New Zealand & Pacific @UNHCR_AusNZPac]

Only 1% of refugee youth have the opportunity to go to university.

20 yr old Afghan refugee Fatemeh was unable to go to school until she arrived in Australia as a teenager. Today she is studying a Bachelor of Justice Studies at @UniCanberra.

#WorldRefugeeDay #StepWithRefugees

[Kon Karapanagiotidis @Kon__K]

The simple dignity of being able to provide food for your family for the coming week & to chose the food that your family needs too. That’s what you make possible when you #donate to the @ASRC1 Foodbank that feeds 100s of refugee families every week 👉🏼 https://t.co/sGAxQkMVni

[Amnesty NSW RefNet @AmnestyRefNet]

“Moving support services for migrants into a national security portfolio makes it even more clear that this government seeks to make it even more difficult for migrants to fully participate in our society”- director of the Migrant Workers Centre https://t.co/fZZVBjVlR3

[Behrouz Boochani @BehrouzBoochani]

Australia cannot ignore the human crisis in Manus and Nauru. The situatation is getting worse day by day, it is a crime against humanity and violation of human rights. I wonder why the international humanitarian organisation are silent in the face of these crimes.#auspol

[Kon Karapanagiotidis @Kon__K]

I had to speak to 40 people seeking asylum today whose lives have been profoundly devastated by this election result, at the @ASRC1. Their faces were full of tears & agony but also a determination to not give up. If refugees can do this then we owe it to stand up & be counted too