‘Mistreated, tortured, harassed’: how Australia is failing LGBTI refugees
“You have decision-makers asking people: do you call gay chat lines, do you go to beats, do you know certain slang? And if you don’t, you mustn’t be gay.”
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Mobile billboard protesting Australia’s treatment of gay refugees to tour Parliament House
The billboard was crowdfunded by international LGBTI rights group All Out, in partnership with Human Rights Law Centre, with the aim of raising awareness on gay Iranian refugees Nima and Ashkan who are currently detained on Nauru.
LGBTI people can do more for asylum seekers and refugees: Gillian Triggs
President of the Human Rights Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs, wants LGBTI Australians to do more for rainbow refugees.
Gay Liberal Senator Dean Smith: “Find place amongst those 12,000 refugees for LGBT people”
Western Australia Liberal Senator Dean Smith has said he would ask Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to consider persecuted LGBTI people in Australia’s intake of refugees from the war zones of Syria and Iraq.