Refugees
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‘Like flying’: Dozens more refugees released from hotel detention in Melbourne
But the second day of releases is bittersweet news to the 14 men who remain detained at the hotel, who…
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Guatemalan authorities crack down on thousands of US-bound migrants fleeing poverty and violence
Guatemalan authorities on Saturday (local time) escalated efforts to stop thousands of Hondurans, many of them families with children, traveling…
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Fresh disturbance at Christmas Island detention centre due to ‘inhumane’ conditions, advocates say
Further unrest among detainees on Christmas Island is due to the Australian government holding people in “inhumane” conditions, refugee advocates…
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End the incarceration of refugees
The recent death in custody of yet another individual in detention highlights again the cruelty of our refugee system under…
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Syrian refugees flee Lebanese camp near Tripoli after their tents were set on fire
At least three people were wounded in the clash on Saturday (local time) near the coastal city of Tripoli, which…
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How a regional Australian city became an unlikely home for hundreds of Yazidi refugees
Yazidi man Aedo is originally from Northern Iraq but now calls a regional Australian city home. Naveen Razik SBS News…
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This is my eighth Christmas locked up in immigration detention. Next year I hope to celebrate as a free man
I am writing to make people aware of the difficult situation refugees have to endure December 2017 An article posted…
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Selling Australia’s offshore detention regime to the world
In the field of refugee and asylum seeker policy, it involves detaining humans, their dehumanisation and the vast, prohibitive expenditure…
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United Nations alarmed’ by Ethiopia returning refugees who fled fighting in Tigray
It’s a “disturbing” and “alarming” move, according to the United Nations, which does not have access to the camps. ABC…
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‘On my birthday I am reborn’: Refugee Farhad Bandesh released after seven years’ detention
After seven and a half years in detention – on Manus Island, in Preston’s Mantra Hotel and finally Melbourne Immigration…
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern apologises for failings identified by royal commission into Christchurch attacks
In March 2019 Australian gunman Brenton Tarrant opened fire at two mosques in Christchurch, killing 51 people and wounding another…
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Bangladesh begins moving Rohingya families to remote island
Bangladesh has begun moving Rohingya families from camps near the Myanmar border to a settlement on a remote island, despite…
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How do you self-isolate in a refugee camp?
Approximately a third of the world’s refugees live in camps. Dr Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson The Conversation Most displaced people, a total…
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Burundian Refugees in Tanzania Face Increasing Danger
He chose Kigoma, a town in northwestern Tanzania near which about 154,000 Burundian nationals continue to seek protection from the previous…
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Ethiopia faces ‘full-scale humanitarian crisis’ as fighting in Tigray continues, UN says
The pace of the exodus from Ethiopia, some 4,000 a day, may also indicate huge uprooting of people within the…
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Pakistani man held by Australia freed after 1,490 days in arbitrary detention
A Pakistani man who was held in immigration detention by Australia for 1,490 days says his release feels “like a…
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