Asylum Seekers

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• North Korea: International lawmakers demand China stop forcibly repatriating refugees to North Korea

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 443
  An international group of lawmakers meeting in Thailand has urged countries to better protect and support North Korean defectors. They also demanded that China stop forcibly repatriating refugees to North Korea, where they could face execution.Representatives from twelve countries, mostly in Asia, met in Thailand ...
  6 hours ago

• Andrew Robb – ready to reflect on the past?

  
  Andrew Bartlett — Authority: 545
  When Andrew Robb announced that he was stepping down from front bench in order to deal with long-standing depression, he received an appropriately sympathetic public response and praise for his willingness to speak out about a widely stigmatised medical condition. But well enough to join the fray of a particularly ...
  11 hours ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Asylum Seekers: Merry Christmas Island Brawl

  
  Crooked in Canada — Authority: 131
  What do you get when you put a bunch of Afghan and Sri Lankan asylum seekers together on an island just off the coast of Australia?  A huge brawl on Christmas Island, but one that the only damage caused is to one another. Like WTF man, what were these clowns trying to prove. Like wasn’t one of the reasons they ...
  6 days ago

• “I have no fear,” a boat captain, tells the reporter.

  
  IAIN HALL — Authority: 132
  I am amazed that so many “Open door” Latte sippers don’t hang their heads in shame for their  support and encouragement the criminal disregard for the lives of “asylum seekers” that is clearly evident in the admissions from these people smugglers.“I have no fear,” one man, a boat captain, tells the ...
  6 days ago

• Violence flares among asylum seekers on Australia’s Christmas Island

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 539
  About 40 people have been injured in brawls between Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers being held at a holding centre on Christmas Island over the past few days. Three people were evacuated to Perth for treatment. The center holds more than 1,000 people, mainly from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, while their ...
  1 week ago

• Australia: Factions riot in Christmas Island detention center

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 553
  You can be sure these days to hear news from Australia about illegal immigrants reaching Australian shores and applying for asylum—five boats arrived this week alone!    While applications for asylum are processed, the boatmen (it is mostly men) are detained on Christmas Island.  In one more example of how ...
  1 week ago

• Human Trafficking: Despite the talk, people smuggling from Indonesia to Australia continues to flourish

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 443
  People smuggling networks taking asylum seekers from Indonesia to Australia are flourishing despite Jakartas pledges to combat the trade.Al Jazeeras Step Vaessen gained rare access to a network of smugglers who revealed some of their closely-guarded methods.These include using secret compartments taking asylum seekers ...
  1 week ago

• Refugees:Fears for migrants forced back to Libya

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 443
  Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) - Migrants are being denied the opportunity to land in Europe and receive much-needed humanitarian assistance. They are also exposed once again to the violence and abuse endured while trying to reach Italy.Rome - New Italian government policies to curb the influx of migrants have led ...
  1 week ago

• Road to nowhere

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 535
  In the wake of his avowal of climate change denialism on Four Corners , Nick Minchin has spent the second last week of the Parliamentary year stoking the fires of Coalition opposition to the CPRS. Tony Abbott, previously a ’skeptic’ who argued that the opposition should support the legislation to remove a ...
  1 week ago

• Nastier refugee stand-offs in our region

  
  Andrew Bartlett — Authority: 545
  Another reminder of how genuine refugees are treated in our region In amongst all the media and political frenzy regarding the Tamil asylum seekers http://www.blacktownsun.com.au/news/world/world/general/indonesia-backs-down-on-merak-boat-people/1681997.aspx refusing to get off some boats in Indonesia, a much greater ...
  1 week ago

• Human Rights First report tells us that broad immigration laws label bona fide asylum seekers as “terrorists”

  
  Restore Fairness Blog — Authority: 119
  According to a Human Rights First report released last week, since 2001, over 18,000 refugees and asylum seekers who pose no threat to U.S. security have not received protection from the U.S. government due to the overly broad provisions of Immigration law, and the expansive way that they have been interpreted by ...
  1 week ago

• Bob making sense on Australia’s population

  
  IAIN HALL — Authority: 132
  Politicians and intellectuals who advocate a continuing exponential  growth in our population, and an ever expanding immigration program are part of of that mad scurry to add more people to the wide brown land. I have travelled over a great deal of this lovely country and as vast  and beautiful as it is the one [...]
  1 week ago

• Care Grants

  
  Citizenseye — Authority: 147
  GRANTEE PROFILES “I worked as a lecturer and research assistant in Microbiology in one of the colleges in Zimbabwe, before I had to leave with my family because of death threats. One of the challenges I faced after arriving in the United Kingdom was that my diploma in Adult Education was not fully recognized and I ...
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• Refugee processing, at “mates rates” or how Brother Number One can’t negotiate and win

  
  IAIN HALL — Authority: 132
  The whole sorry saga of the “Asylum seekers” plucked out of their stricken boat, at the request of the Indonesian government, in the Indonesian rescue zone has been a disaster fro the government of Brother Number One. And You can bet London to a brick that future aspiring immigrants will take what has happened on ...
  1 week ago

• Not the Fiji news

  
  Babasiga — Authority: 126
  from w Though this is not the Fiji news, it is relevant to Fiji because its about a world problem of crossing borders, of people who are either refugees or opportunists. While a karaoke singer lunges out with a song, the Tamil asylum seekers are placed in an Indonesian (but Australia funded) detention centre. I am ...
  1 week ago

• Is this the Britain for Which Our People Fought?

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 612
  Afghan asylum seekers converting to Christianity to subvert deportation proceedings, Chinese restaurant owners smuggling in hundreds of their nationals and immigrant civil servants who marry their daughters to get them into the country: This is the state of Britain’s immigration nightmare today. These outrages are ...
  1 week ago

• 56 Sri Lankan Asylum Seekers Leave Australian Ship

  
  All World News - PakMahfil.com — Authority: 164
  56 Sri Lankan Asylum Seekers Leave Australian Ship, Dozens of Sri Lankan asylum seekers left an Australian customs ship in Indonesia on Wednesday, ending a three-week protest over their claims for refugee status. Police said all 56 migrants on board the Oceanic Viking had left the ship, after weeks of negotiations ...
  1 week ago

• Time Very Short for Iran on Nuclear Deal: US

  
  MastiFunda.com — Authority: 154
  WASHINGTON : Time Very Short for Iran on Nuclear Deal: US, Iran faces a “very short” window to submit its formal response to a U.N.-brokered deal meant to allay suspicions that it seeks to develop nuclear weapons, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday. “Frustration is mounting,” State Department ...
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