Asylum Seekers
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Immigration detainee not given new food because maggots ‘just on the vegetables’, report finds
An immigration detainee served a contaminated meal was not offered an alternative because the maggots were “just on the vegetables”,…
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Resettlement for People from Nauru to New Zealand Needs Urgent Fast Tracking to End Cruelty of Offshore Detention
Amnesty International understands that four more people were due to arrive in Aotearoa New Zealand today after spending years in…
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Thousands of Ukrainian refugees living in hotels as councils struggle to deal with rising homelessness
Thousands of Ukrainian refugees are being housed in hotels as councils struggle to deal with a rising number becoming homeless. Holly Bancroft…
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Spanish police arrest 43 in crackdown on migrant worker exploitation
Spanish police they have broken up a criminal group that exploited undocumented migrant workers in the agricultural sector, mainly from…
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Legal challenge to Australia’s indefinite immigration detention could determine freedom of hundreds
Advocates believe Egyptian man’s case paves way to possibly overturn 2004 decision upholding indefinite detention by Migration Act Paul Karp…
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‘I can see my family again’: More than 19,000 refugees to qualify for permanent residency
The change will mean the refugees would be able to freely leave the country and return, to access secure work…
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‘Hardly anyone is getting off’: despite Labor’s promises, refugees needing urgent medical care remain on Nauru
An Afghan refugee in offshore detention since 2013 has had two doctors’ referrals for overseas treatment, but has not been…
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Packed-out lecture hears Behrouz Boochani talk of freedom
Refugee Advice and Casework service with the University of New South Wales Centre for Ideas and the Kaldor Centre for…
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Like Primo Levi at Auschwitz, Behrouz Boochani testifies for the people who lived and died in a prison camp
I thus find myself drawn to thinking about Behrouz Boochani’s project of writing the histories of Manus Prison as being part of…
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Behrouz Boochani was told he would never set foot in Australia. He just did
Kurdish refugee and writer Behrouz Boochani has landed in Australia years after the previous government insisted he would never be…
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Albanian migrant: ‘I wish I’d never tried to enter the UK illegally’
I told them I was an economic migrant,” said Artan. Joe Inwood & Albana Kasapi BBC News “They gave us…
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The Jungle and the Sea reminds us war is profoundly local, with the intimate negotiation of human relationships
Sri Lanka was in a civil war from 1983 to 2009, about a Tamil national liberation struggle for independence in…
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Turkey Pushes Afghans Back at Iran Border
Surge in Deportations to Kabul Human Rights Watch On October 18, 2022, Human Rights Watch wrote to the Turkish authorities setting out…
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Stand-off at port as Italy accepts only some rescued migrants
Italy on Sunday took in families with babies and vulnerable migrants rescued in the Mediterranean as charities slammed Rome’s decision to order the…
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Home Office contractors removed for trying to sell drugs at Manston asylum centre
Home Office contractors have been disciplined after trying to sell illegal drugs to asylum seekers at the crisis-hit processing centre…
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Bangladeshi refugee describes ‘humiliating’ treatment because of disability while detained on Nauru
A disabled Bangladeshi refugee has told the Disability Royal Commission he often went hungry during his detention on Nauru because…
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