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ASEP Presents: Gayaal Iddamalgoda
On Thursday the 30th May, all of us here at the Community Justice Project and Asylum Seekers Equality Project had the honour of hosting Gayaal Iddamalgoda to hear his thoughts regarding our current Refugee Policy and the criminalisation of immigration. Gayaal...
Hear Our Voices, We Entreat
On behalf of the Wellington Community Justice Project, we are pleased to invite you to participate in our refugee resettlement policy development evening – ‘Hear Our Voices, We Entreat.’ Aotearoa’s current support for asylum seekers and convention refugees is far from...
#KidsOffNauru
Since World Vision launched their #KidsOffNauru campaign in mid-August, the deplorable conditions in which the 119 children on Nauru Island are living in have come to light. The refugees and asylum seekers are faced with substandard conditions where they lack access...
ASEP Investigates: The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
– A Campaign milestone update Recently our Government team sat down with Suzanne Malan, a principal advisor at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), to ask how they are actively fulfilling the promises they made in their Refugee Resettlement...
Refugees United
Why the 2018 FIFA Football World Cup belonged to Immigrant and Refugee players. In the midst of emergent global nationalism and xenophobia, ironically the makeup of some of Europe’s beloved football teams is increasingly multi ethnic. Football has always been an...
Food for Thought
ASEP chatted with Vic student Bryony Harrison about why she has decided to embark on the Ration Challenge by eating the same food rations as a Syrian refugee for one week. Check out her inspiring answers as to what she’s doing to show that she’s with refugees, not...