CIMI completes survey showing that almost 60 percent of Israelis believe refugees are dangerous to society. Oscar Olivier, an asylum-seeker from Congo who has lived in Israel for 19 years and a staff member of ARDC, said that he has trouble believing the figures based on his experience.
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Anguish for Eritrean refugee over daughters' Sinai fate
DW, Tue, 11/06/2013
An Eritrean refugee who calls himself Mulugeta is speaking out for the first time since he arrived in Tel Aviv after surviving a torture camp in Sinai - one of hundreds of refugees who managed to pay his way out.
Israel's High Court to hear petition against law allowing prolonged detention of 'infiltrators'
Haaretz, Sun, 02/06/2013
Human rights groups, among them ARDC, seek annulment of amendment allowing illegal migrants to be detained for three years, passed by the Knesset in January 2012 and came into force last June
Standing up to domestic violence in Tel Aviv
Al Monitor, Tue, 30/04/2013
Diddy Mymin, ARDC's psychosocial project manager, describes the increasing incidents of domestic violence in the Eritrean community and explains that despite having the same access to the law as Israelis, the fear of reprisals is substantial enough to deter many women in Israel from reporting...
Where are they now? / An Ethiopian refugee who built an Israeli home
Haaretz, Fri, 29/03/2013
Ethiopian Christian Yohannes Bayu fled his home country in 1997, but it took years for the United Nations Human Rights Council to recognize him as a refugee, and even longer for Israel to agree that he could stay. Now, he is making sure other Africans in Israel have a better shot.
And you shall tell it to your refugees
Haaretz, Thu, 28/03/2013
Obama may not have been addressing African refugees in Israel in his speech last week, but his message of hope, cooperation and empathy felt personal to Nadja Rumjanceva's (an ARDC teacher) students who came to Tel Aviv's Refugee Seder, who dream of education and peace in their homeland.
For African migrants in Tel Aviv, Exodus is more than distant memory
Haaretz, Sun, 24/03/2013
“I thought what better way to imagine the exodus from Egypt than to share a Passover meal with people who actually did experience flight from Egypt,” says Nic Schlagman, ARDC Program Manager of the annual Refugee Seder.
Reaching Israel's refugees, one English class at a time
Haaretz, Fri, 18/01/2013
The discovery that with the exception of some classes and training at the ARDC in Tel Aviv and a few volunteer-based programs, there was woefully little educational support for the community, the Schoolhouse was born.
MKs hold 'banish the darkness' anti-migrant rally
Jerusalem Post, Mon, 10/12/2012
The EU delegation in Israel organized a reception to highlight the network of human rights organizations they sponsor in Israel. Sponsored by the Netherlands Embassy in Israel in cooperation with Merchavim: The Institute for the Advancement of Shared Citizenship in Israel, the seminar was titled...
Comboni nun works to help Eritreans tortured, raped en route to Israel
Catholic News Service, Wed, 14/11/2012
Comboni Sister Azezet Kidane is fluent in Amharic, Tigrit, Arabic and Sudanese dialects, so she was a natural choice when ARDC decided to open its Children Centre as part of its shelter for homeless refugee women in Tel Aviv.
