Media Releases

It's All Too Easy Mr Peters

 

February 2008
It's all too easy to take an isolated incident and embellish it to play upon our global fear of terrorism or reinforce our sub-conscious suspicion of those who are different or just don't seem to belong. More

RMS Refugee Resettlement welcomes Ahmed Zaoui decision
September 2007
RMS Refugee Resettlement welcomes the decision made by the Director of Security to withdraw the security risk certificate against Algerian refugee Ahmed Zaoui. More

The Migrating Kitchen: a first for Pataka, Museum of Arts and Culture, Porirua
August 2007

We're passionate about it; we die without it, we die with too much of it, we all need it...every culture, race and creed - and we all do it differently. It's food! More

Doris Chun, 89 and still cooking ...more

UNHCR: Refugee Numbers up for the first time in five years.
June 2007
GENEVA - The number of refugees in the world has increased for the first time since 2002, largely as a result of the crisis in Iraq, the UN refugee agency said today. More

Full Document 2006 Global Trends
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Media Release for World Refugee Day 2007
June 2007
Every year on June 20 the world honours the courage, resilience and strength of refugees. On this sixth anniversary of the United Nations designated World Refugee Day, thousands of organisations in hundreds of countries will come together to focus global attention not only on the plight of refugees and the causes of their exile, but also on their determination and will to survive and on the contributions they make to their host communities. WRD also coincides with Volunteer Awareness Week (June 17 - 23) and we encourage people to contact us to find out more about the wonderful opportunity of becoming a Volunteer Support Worker.

This year the theme for World Refugee Day is the "Voices of Young Refugees".
Media Release - Christchurch
Media Release - Voices of Young Refugees
Media Release - Palmerston North
Media Release - Mixit - Auckland
Media Release - UNHCR
World Refugee Day - Events

Media Release: High Commissioner Antonio Guterres will spend World Refugee Day on June 20 in Southern Sudan where tens of thousands of refugees and internally displaced people are returning home after decades of conflict. More

Response to Australia's "Refugee Swap" Announcement
23 April 2007
The recent announcement that Australia and the United States are planning to 'swap' asylum seekers provides further cause for alarm about the way in which some states are attempting to redefine their international obligations as signatories to the Refugee Convention and Protocol. More

UNHCR News Release
30 August 2006
UNHCR welcomes New Zealand Government's move to grant residence to Zimbabwean nationals. More

World Refugee Day Wellington
7 June 2006
World Refugee Day, Tuesday 20 June, is a day to celebrate both the courage and resilience of refugees and the goodwill of host communities who welcome them to their new homes. More

World Refugee Day Auckland
6 June 2006
World Refugee Day, Tuesday 20 June, is a day to celebrate both the courage and resilience of refugees and the goodwill of host communities who welcome them to their new homes. More

Palmerston North to be new refugee resettlement centre
20 December 2005
Palmerston North will become the country's newest refugee resettlement centre next year joining Auckland, greater Wellington, Hamilton, Christchurch and Nelson as cities where refugees accepted by the NZ government each year are settled. More

Cutting refugee numbers will cost not save
10 August 2005
The National Party's immigration policy released yesterday shows a lack of understanding of refugee policy in New Zealand, says RMS Refugee Resettlement director Peter Cotton. More

Remembering refugees
2 June 2005
Church communities around New Zealand are being asked to remember refugees during the week of 20-26 June which is New Zealand's Refugee Week. More

Concern for refugees amid visa uproar
5 May 2005
RMS Refugee Resettlement, the NGO that resettles quota refugees in NZ, is concerned about the impact the current uproar about Iraqi visas is having on many of the Iraqi refugees with whom the agency works, says director Peter Cotton. More

Winston Peters misleads
4 November 2004
Winston Peters' comments in the House yesterday about New Zealand's refugee quota system were inaccurate and misleading, says RMS Resettlement director Peter Cotton. More

Hutt Valley volunteers needed
6 September 2004
Volunteer support workers are urgently needed to lend a helping hand to Sudanese refugees arriving in the HuttValley later this year, says Kathryn Ng, Wellington Regional Manager for RMS Refugee Resettlement. More

Refugee resettlement support strengthened
27 May 2004
Increased funding for the Refugee and Migrant Service announced in the Budget is welcome recognition of the crucial role RMS plays in refugee resettlement, said RMS Director, Peter Cotton. More