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.

The RACS team has been visiting regional towns across New South Wales to provide legal information to refugees and people seeking asylum living outside metropolitan Sydney.