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CDB_77 @cdb_77 27/07/2014

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Painting detention: Asylum seeker #art highlights the perils and the pain
A simple question lies at the heart of Shokufa Tahiri’s painting The Voyage, which is inspired by her father’s perilous sea journey to Australia to escape persecution by the Taliban in 1999.
http://images.smh.com.au/2014/07/27/5628912/1406434786153.jpg-300x0.jpg

▻http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/painting-detention-asylum-seeker-art-highlights-the-perils-and-the-pain-2014
#réfugiés #asile #migration #détention #détention_administrative #rétention #Afghanistan #peinture #Australie
Tahiri’s painting is one of more than 100 artworks by refugees and asylum seekers held in the #Villawood Immigration Detention Centre that will be exhibited in #Still_Alive, which opens at Stanley Street Gallery in Darlinghurst on August 4.
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- CDB_77 @cdb_77 10/08/2014
  
  #Shokufa_Tahiri: “Art is a very strong instrument. It’s an instrument for social change. Art is a companion for refugees in the mist of agony or dispair. The only way they can communicate effectively is the art. It’s like their best friend. There is no hesitation, through art you do not recognize. Through art you do not recognize any pressure or any barriers. The message is direct. And I think that art is an universal language, which anybody can use to speak their feelings or their state of conscious”
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- CDB_77 @cdb_77 19/08/2014
  
  Shokufa Tahiri @ STILL ALIVE Exhibition
  A moving speech by Shokufa Tahiri, a former refugee and member of the Refugee Art Project women’s workshop in Parramatta. She is a spokesperson and advocate for the Afghan and Hazara refugee community in Sydney, who is currently studying a double degree in Law and Economics.
  ▻http://vimeo.com/103625927
  #Afghanistan
  #citation du discours de Shokufa Tahiri :
  “Being a refugee is no an option, being born at that side of the world and not this corner of the world is not an option, but a coincidence. Being faced with persecution, racism and discrimination, war and rage is not a desire, it is a coincidence. No human desires pain”
  
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MasterAdrian @masteradrian CC BY-NC-ND 13/11/2012

Fijian government says gays have nothing to fear in Fiji
Fiji government building

Government of Fiji responds to protestors on the roof of an immigration detention center in Sydney
13 November 2012 | By Anna Leach
The government of Fiji has responded to claims by protestors at Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney who said yesterday there are no gay rights in the Pacific islands nation.
Three protestors climbed onto the roof at the immigration center yesterday. One protestor, Sai Bulewa said gay people have no rights in Fiji and they fear abuse.
Fiji Village reports today that a government spokesperson said that ‘there are no grounds to support the Fijian protestors’ claims… that they face persecution in Fiji for their sexual orientation’.
AAP reports today that the protestors are still on the roof despite hours of negotiation.
Refugee Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul said the protest started when a female Fijian asylum seeker climbed onto the roof with two others at 7am yesterday to protest against her deportation.
‘The Immigration Department should withdraw the removal notice,’ said Rintoul, The Age reports. ‘That is the first step to de-escalate the situation and remove the threat of forcible removal.’
The Fijian government spokesperson added that Fiji has some of the most liberal gay laws in the Pacific and the government has specifically decriminalized acts between consenting adults.
In February 2010 a Crime Decree decriminalized gay sex in Fiji, following an outcry after an Australian, Thomas McCosker, was arrested and eventually sentenced to two years in jail for sodomy in 2005.

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