Seventy-three UN member states raised concerns about and recommended changes to Australian Government policies related to refugees, people seeking asylum, stateless people, immigration detention, racial discrimination...
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CRCP 2025: Three decades of securing solutions together
The Consultations on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways (CRCP) is the most important multilateral forum for UNHCR, States, NGOs, refugees, private sector representatives, and others to come together to discuss and...
How Australia can Support Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia
In Southeast Asia, over 400,000 refugees and asylum seekers face significant humanitarian challenges. This report details Australia’s strategy to enhance regional refugee protection, driven by humanitarian...
Global Snapshot of Resettlement and Complementary Pathways
As the number of people forcibly displaced globally grows, the need to expand resettlement and other durable (‘complementary’) migration pathways for refugees has never been greater. One of the main objectives of the...
Implementing the Refugee Participation Pledge
This brief outlines the ways in which RCOA has progressed its commitment, through the Refugee Participation Pledge, as an organisation to support the meaningful participation of refugees in decisions that affect their...
Is Australia’s response to refugees generous? An analysis of UNHCR Global Trends statistics from 2013 to 2022
This Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) briefing looks at 10 years of statistics released by the UN refugee agency UNHCR, noting changes in the numbers of refugees and people seeking asylum between 2013 and 2022 and...
