By Reuters – Oct 31,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Refugee advocates protest against the closing of asylum-seeker camps in Papua New Guinea, in front of the Sydney Commonwealth government offices, on […]
Reuters International JUN 16, 2017 FILE PHOTO – A sign adorns the security fence near shelters inside the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea, February 11, 2017. Behrouz Boochani/Handout via REUTERS/File photo (reuters_tickers) By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) – The United States will tell dozens of refugees […]
Chitralekha Massey, the new Pacific representative of the office says politicians must show courage and close Australian-run detention centres Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton talks to prime minister Malcolm Turnbull in parliament. The UN human rights office has said Australia must end offshore immigration detention. Photograph: Mike Bowers for the […]
Exclusive: In his 43-year career, Paul Stevenson has worked in the aftermath of the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami but says nothing he witnessed was as bad as the treatment of asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus by Ben Doherty and David Marr In my entire career of […]
Source: BBC Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court has ruled that the detention of asylum seekers and refugees on Manus Island is unconstitutional. Australia sends asylum seekers to the Manus Island […]
By Bethan McKernan in news Roma or Romani people have been discriminated against for millennia and the tradition continues in Europe today. A camp of mostly Roma on the outskirts of Malmo in Sweden wasraided last month. More than 200 people’s homes were destroyed and the local authorities only have plans to […]
ROD MCGUIRK | AP ARABNEWS Friday 31 August 2012 CANBERRA: Australia calls it a “closing-down sale” for people smugglers: Asylum-seekers in rickety boats are reaching its shores in record numbers […]
LABOR will talk to Nauru about reopening an asylum seeker processing centre there if the coalition agrees to pass the government’s amendment to the Migration Act without changes. Immigration Minister […]