The Refugee Advice & Casework Service (RACS) today launched Safer Futures for Refugee Women Escaping Gender-Based Violence, a first-of-its-kind toolkit designed to help frontline service providers better support refugee and asylum-seeking women at risk of family, sexual and gender-based violence. 

Refugee organisations have slammed the Albanese Government for making yet another secret deal with Nauru, this time paving the way for mass deportations at a cost to the taxpayer of nearly half a billion dollars initially as well as another $70 million every year.

Refugee Advice & Casework Service (RACS) has announced Miles Franklin Award -winning author, Shankari Chandran, as its newest Ambassador.

“With her background in law and the values embedded in her stories of refugees and migrants to Australia, Shankari is a great ambassador for RACS and our mission,” said RACS Centre Director & Principal Solicitor, Sarah Dale.

At RACS, our trauma-informed legal practice recognises that people’s experiences of displacement are shaped by identity. This is especially true for LGBTQI+ individuals, whose survival depends not only on fleeing danger but also on navigating a protection process that often fails to see them for who they truly are.

We have adopted a trauma-informed approach across all of our casework, and creating the LGBTQI+ Safety Program as a dedicated service improves our ability to cater to the unique needs of queer refugees.