Lisa van Toor (@lisa_vantoor) 's Twitter Profile
Lisa van Toor

@lisa_vantoor

Law Lecturer @MurdochUni ~ human rights, refugee & (crim)migration law | lawyer. all views (brilliant or otherwise) = mine. she/her🌈

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Jana Favero 🇮🇹⚽️ (@janafavero) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Right now, people who came to our shores in search of safety can be denied the right to support themselves or their families with decent work. Sign the petition for urgent work rights for refugees and people seeking asylum👇🏽 action.asrc.org.au/work-study-reb…

Kon Karapanagiotidis (@kon__k) 's Twitter Profile Photo

80% of ALP voters 72% of Coalition voters 90% of Greens voters Overwhelming majority of Australians back a pathway to permanency for refugees on TPVs shar.es/af6KTm via @kaldorcentre So what is the Australian Government waiting for?

Penny Sharpe (@pennysharpemlc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Young women may be more ideologically drawn to the left than those older and wiser to the ways of the world, particularly those who had the dubious fortune of attending university." women going to university a dubious fortune? Sounds a bit Talibanny to me. #nswpol

Jana Favero 🇮🇹⚽️ (@janafavero) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A moral and financial black hole. “At the current rate – based on 65 people – it is costing Australian taxpayers more than $2.1m each year to hold a single person on the island.” US operator accused of ‘gross negligence’ wins $420m Nauru contract theguardian.com/australia-news…

Mary Anne Kenny (@maryannekenny) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The announcement for permanency includes $9.4 million for legal centres to provide advice and assistance to people on TPVs & SHEVs. Thank you Andrew Giles MP for recognising the important role of CLCs, lawyers and migration agents to work together with refugees to end limbo

Mary Anne Kenny (@maryannekenny) 's Twitter Profile Photo

.Murdoch University human rights program - students so privileged to hear from human rights activist Abdul Aziz Adam today about his #refugee journey from Sudan to Australia, Manus, PNG. Now resident in Switzerland.

.<a href="/MurdochUni/">Murdoch University</a> human rights program - students so privileged to hear from
human rights activist <a href="/Abdulaziz_Ada/">Abdul Aziz Adam</a> today about his #refugee journey from Sudan to Australia, Manus, PNG. Now resident in Switzerland.
Abdul Aziz Adam (@abdulaziz_ada) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thanks to Murdoch University for having me as guest speaker especially two days away from the 10th anniversary of 19 of July offshore detention police. 🙏🙏🙏

Filippo Grandi (@filippograndi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The new migration bill passed by the UK Parliament violates the country’s international human rights and refugee law obligations. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk and I share grave concerns in this respect. Here is our joint statement👇🏻 unhcr.org/news/press-rel…

Mary Anne Kenny (@maryannekenny) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thank you Zaki Haidari for a very moving talk to students studying refugee law Murdoch University human rights program. He gave a moving first hand of #refugee experience and about the work of Amnesty International Australia 🕯 on refugees and what we can all do to uphold refugee rights

Thank you <a href="/ZakiHaidariAU/">Zaki Haidari</a> for a very moving talk to students studying refugee law <a href="/MurdochUni/">Murdoch University</a> human rights program. He gave a moving first hand of #refugee experience and about the work of <a href="/amnestyOz/">Amnesty International Australia 🕯</a> on refugees and what we can all do to uphold refugee rights
CIJ_ICJ (@cij_icj) 's Twitter Profile Photo

PRESS RELEASE: #SouthAfrica institutes proceedings against #Israel and asks the #ICJ to indicate provisional measures bit.ly/3GZnYpZ

PRESS RELEASE: #SouthAfrica institutes proceedings against #Israel and asks the #ICJ to indicate provisional measures 
bit.ly/3GZnYpZ
Mary Anne Kenny (@maryannekenny) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Freed immigration detainee sues Australian government for damages for alleged false imprisonment theguardian.com/australia-news…

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@franceskalbs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The ICJ has yet to fully examine the merits of the South Africa v Israel case but has recognised the plausibility that Israel has committed acts of genocide in Gaza. The Court has recommended several provisional measures that have not been acted upon (and openly violated) by

Lisa van Toor (@lisa_vantoor) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is causing significant harm to an already grieving community. As ⁦David Shoebridge⁩ said: “It is beyond cruel to deny people fleeing the onslaught in Gaza the possibility of safety because they might be unable to return to their homes.” theguardian.com/australia-news…

Anna (@annactalbot) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#ASF17 handed down today, here are a few thoughts: there were two judgments, one by 6 judges, and one by Edelman alone. They all agreed that ASF17's claim to be released from immigration detention should be dismissed, but Edelman J's reasons were very nuanced