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Refugee Union was founded in 2014 with visions to safeguard protection claimants\u2019 rights and to ameliorate their prospects. Since our commencement of services, we have been working closely with our partners in the community and organising diversified programmes to actualise members\u2019 psychological and social well-being.<\/p>\n

Our Featured Articles<\/b><\/h5>\n

This month we are thrilled to be featured in two articles. Sophia Zhang from Shatin College wrote about the stories of asylum seekers and refugees in Hong Kong based on her interviews with our members. Her article has been published on our blog<\/a>. Ka Wang Kelvin Lam, our volunteer and a researcher of the Department of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), highlighted the importance of the refugee community. He wrote about the ways asylum seekers and refugees here cope with hardship in times of COVID-19 pandemic by using our organisation as a case study. His article<\/a> has been published with Routed Magazine<\/em> and the blog of the University of Oxford’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS).<\/p>\n

Stop Indefinite Detention<\/b><\/h5>\n

We are\u00a0aware\u00a0of the indefinite detention happening in the Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre (CIC). Without a reasonable justification, such an\u00a0act sharply differs\u00a0from the general practice of the Immigration Department on arrest and detention, not to mention other issues (say,\u00a0hygiene and delayed medical treatments) the detainees\u00a0are suffering from. Among them, some are asylum seekers and refugees. They are currently in a hunger strike going against CIC\u2019s indefinite detention. All lives matter. With the CIC Detainees Right Concern Group<\/a>, we the Refugee Union always stand with the detainees and condemn all inhuman treatments.<\/p>\n

Donations Keep Going<\/b><\/h5>\n

The coronavirus disease continues to surge Hong Kong and across the globe. In this difficult time, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to our donors for lending us a helping hand. This month we received donations of different items, which include daily necessities and protective equipment for our members. Thank you very much for our donors\u2019 generous support!<\/p>\n

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Please stay tuned to our official website<\/a> and social media pages (Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, and Twitter<\/a>) for the updates, and feel free to contact us by visiting our office or sending us an email at info@refugeeunion.org should you have any enquiry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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