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End migrant disability & health discrimination in Aotearoa NZ

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  • Collective launches campaign to end ableist migration rules

    Collective launches campaign to end ableist migration rules

    A group of migrants, refugees and families directly impacted by migration discrimination are launching a campaign #EndASHNow calling to scrap ableist migration rules.  Under the Acceptable Standard of Health or ASH, migrants with disabilities, health conditions and health needs are viewed as financial costs to health or education services, not as contributing members of society. […]

    Áine Kelly-Costello

    April 1, 2022
    Media releases
  • Family in limbo due to ablest health requirements hands over petition

    Family in limbo due to ablest health requirements hands over petition

    Migrants Against the Acceptable Standard of Health Aotearoa 5 May, for immediate release  Yesterday, a Christchurch family from Chile who have been battling immigration for almost 7 years so their daughter Ignacia who has a learning disability can stay in the country handed over a 3350 signature-strong petition to Green MP Ricardo Menéndez March. Under […]

    Áine Kelly-Costello

    May 6, 2022
    Media releases
  • Family facing ableist migration discrimination delivers petition to be reunited

    Family facing ableist migration discrimination delivers petition to be reunited

    28 April, for immediate release Update: Watch the petition hand-over here. Read Gail and Allan Alfonzo’s powerful hand-over speech here. A family torn apart for six years because of migration rules that discriminate against disabled people are delivering a petition to be reunited in Aotearoa. Allan Alfonzo has been living in Auckland since 2016, running […]

    Áine Kelly-Costello

    April 28, 2022
    Media releases
  • Immediately hault deportation of Narinderjit Singh, Migrants against ASH urges government

    In a shocking and inhumane instance of migrant discrimination, the Government is planning to deport disabled migrant Narinderjit Singh, effectively to his death. Narinderjit, a polio survivor, has been living in Aotearoa for 22 years. His family, specialist medical team and community supports are all here in Aotearoa. Because of a one-off incident 8 years […]

    Áine Kelly-Costello

    April 7, 2022
    Non-ASH discrimination
  • Ableist health requirements leave family in limbo. Sign to let Ignacia stay

    Ableist health requirements leave family in limbo. Sign to let Ignacia stay

    So many migrant families living in Aotearoa call this country home. All they want is to contribute however they can, and be able to settle down safe in the knowledge that they can stay in NZ. But instead, many are penalised and left in limbo  by ableist migration health rules. Chilean family Carolina, Cristian, Fernando […]

    Áine Kelly-Costello

    March 24, 2022
    Impacted by ASH
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