Project ReDEFIANT

RISE’s members and peers and volunteers are invited to be involved in ReDEFIANT. A community Forum Theatre project by refugees and asylum seekers to tell it like it is.Don’t let politicians, and journalists speak for you and DEFINE your identity....

The charade of Australian-Sri Lankan relations

30/07/2012 After the forcible return in the face of desperate pleas, and 16 hours of continuous interrogation by Sri Lanka?s notorious Criminal Investigations Department in the presence of Australian authorities, returned Tamil asylum seeker Mr X has become an emblem...

RISE Exclusive Media Release – 26/07/2012

United Nations Committee Against Torture appeals to the Australian Government to prevent deportation of tamil torture survivor 26/07/2012 The United Nations Committee Against Torture has today sought to intervene in the case of ?Mr X?, a Tamil asylum seeker who was...