Data-Driven Security - Need to Know Memo - Reports. Asylum seeker boat in strife off Indonesia. AM - Report finds young refugees struggling when they turn 18 30/10/2013. TONY EASTLEY: A new report has found that vulnerable refugees who come to Australia by boat without their parents struggle when they turn 18 and lose their access to specialised support. Unaccompanied children deemed to be refugees are placed in group homes and given case workers, but when they turn 18, they are treated as adults and that means looking after themselves. Some of them find it tough going, as Felicity Ogilvie reports. FELICITY OGILVIE: Life is good at the moment for a 17-year-old teenager from Afghanistan who's been granted a protection visa. He's living in a group home in Melbourne with lots of support.
TEENAGER: We are getting low rent house and they give us a good facility when we are underage, so we are happy from them. FELICITY OGILVIE: What do you think will happen to you once they turn 18? TEENAGER: You know, we lose our case worker and the rent of our house going to be high, and bills, everything's going to be expensive. CARMEL GUERRA: Extend what you do. Protest on Manus Island over Bibby Progress | World news. A demonstration by local landholders against Australia’s expanding asylum seeker facilities on Manus Island became a “major disturbance” that had to be put down by Papua New Guinean police, sources have told Guardian Australia. The demonstration on Saturday is believed to have been targeting the new floating barge hotel, the Bibby Progress, which accommodates up to 635 staff and has been dubbed “a monstrosity” by local people.
The demonstration riggered a “code grey” security alert – a major disturbance – and some sources said two Papua New Guinean nationals were injured when local police responded in a “heavy-handed” way, with “weapons drawn”. The latest incident comes after the recent violent clash outside the processing centre between PNG police and military, which saw the initial stages of an evacuation of centre staff – leaving the asylum seeker centre inmates behind. There are 1,137 asylum seekers on Manus Island. Syrian Conflict: Jordan to "take measures" to protect itself. King Abdullah II urged the international community to support Jordan in its efforts in the Syrian crisis.
[ammonnews] Jordan will “take measures” to protect its interests if the Syrian refugee crisis is not resolved, King Abdullah II said on Sunday in a speech to parliament. The monarch said that the influx of Syrian refugees is draining Jordan’s resources and called for international assistance to deal with the problem. “Jordan currently hosts around 600,000 Syrian refugees -- an issue that depletes our already limited resources and puts enormous pressure on our infrastructure,” the king said. “If the international community does not move quickly to help us shoulder the burdens of the Syrian crisis...
King Abdullah II also said that since the start of the Syrian conflict, Jordan has been supporting a political solution that would preserve the war-hit country's unity and territorial integrity, as well security in the region. (With AFP) How to have a more nuanced public discussion about asylum seekers - ABC New South Wales. How to have a more nuanced public discussion about asylum seekers 30/10/2013 , 11:37 AM by Scott Spark Today the Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law will be officially opened at the University of NSW. Scientia Professor of Law Jane McAdam is its founding director, and spoke to Adam Spencer on 702 ABC Sydney.
She said the Centre will "provide a space for informed and reasoned discussion and debate around the asylum seeker issue," which she says has, "become so politicised by both sides of politics. " Encouraging a more nuanced discussion of migration and asylum seekers, Prof McAdam said, "What we have happening in the political space is an attempt to demonise and criminalise asylum seekers so that the general public sees them as a problem, as a threat, and as criminals, rather than as people who are in need of protection and have a right to seek it.
Asylum seekers aren't doing something that is illegal by a matter of international law. 702_breakfast. Teenagers transferred to Manus Island due to administrative error | World news. Two unaccompanied teenage asylum seekers being held in a small secure compound on Manus Island regional processing centre were transferred offshore as a result of administrative errors, Guardian Australia understands.
The two boys, both unaccompanied minors, understood to be a 16-year-old Rohingyan and a 17-year-old Iranian, claim to have been on Manus for three months and two months respectively, a source close to the case said. This means it is likely they were transferred under Kevin Rudd’s so-called PNG solution. It is understood that one did not give his age when he was interviewed on Christmas Island, and was subsequently transferred to Manus, another may have given a false age during interview.
Both boys were housed with the adult male population on Manus for a number of days before staff offered them separate accommodation, which they both took. Another source on Manus said the compound had previously served as a kitchen. AusAID Fuels Bougainville Mining Tensions. Last week The National – one of Papua New Guinea’s major newspapers – featured a full page advertisement attacking the AusAID-funded legal adviser to Bougainville, Anthony Regan, who is also a fellow at the Australian National University.
Written by two former Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) ministers the full page spread claims that Regan, along with ABG President, John Momis, have engineered a “top-down [mining] policy” that will “take ownership, control and all decision making away from the customary landowners of Bougainville”. Mining is a sensitive issue on Bougainville. The decade-long civil war that pounded the island during the 1990s, taking somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 lives, was triggered by Rio Tinto’s mammoth copper and gold mine, which landowners accused of destroying their environment and fracturing Bougainville’s tightly knit communities.
“The last time the Bougainville Copper Mine was open, a civil war broke out in Papua New Guinea. . “... Syrian mother reunited with children inside refugee camp. The emotional scene, captured for SBS' online documentary series, Exit Syria, shows Amira – not her real name – travelling to her former husband’s home with the help of a neighbour. On arrival, she has difficulty gaining access to the children, who are reluctant to see their mother. "I asked Samira, 'who do you like, your old mother or your new one? '" a neighbouring child tells Amira. "She said 'the new one'. " But the four children are eventually brought into the room where Amira is waiting. "You don't want to come to me? " "You should come to me. " But eldest daughter Samira tells Amira that is not an option. "Dad won't let us," she says. Amira's reunion: The distraught mother faces an impossible situation. She moved away from the children after she says her husband and father-in-law "kicked her out", but when she is reunited with them, neighbouring women urge her to come back.
"Come back to your kids, it’s better," one woman tells her. "Forget your husband and everything they have. " English Seekers | Connecting Asylum Seekers with English Language Partners. Stick Figures and Stunted Growth as Warring Syria Goes Hungry. Officer disciplined for calling asylum seekers by numbers instead of names | World news. A detention centre officer has been investigated for allegedly calling asylum seekers as young as 12 by boat ID numbers instead of their names, according to a letter from a senior manager from Serco, the global company that runs a number of Australian detention centres. Following complaints from visitors at Wickham Point immigration detention centre that detainees were being called by ID numbers, Serco investigated and found that one officer had breached policies.
Serco's northern regional manager, John Hayes, wrote to the complainant advising them of the outcome of the investigation: "This investigation confirmed that an officer had used boat ID number rather than names. This resulted in a disciplinary hearing being held and a formal warning issued to the officer concerned. " "It is Serco's practice, in line with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection's approach, to address people within our care by name. This practice relates to all forms of communication. " Contact Senator or Member. Australian Migration and Settlement Awards | Migration Council Australia. Greens force Labor to decide on temporary protection visas. Federal politics: full coverage The Greens will move to block the Abbott government's effort to reintroduce temporary protection visas for refugees, forcing Labor to pick a side as it rakes over the coals of its election loss.
Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young told Fairfax Media she would move to disallow the government regulation for TPVs as soon as Parliament resumes on November 12. "The government wants to deny refugee families the protection that they so desperately need," Senator Hanson-Young said. Advertisement "The Greens will move to get rid of TPVs as soon as Parliament resumes. The Labor Party needs to decide if it will back a humane approach on refugees or Tony Abbott's version of Howard-era cruelty. " A spokesman for Labor leader Bill Shorten said the Labor caucus would have to discuss the issue and reach a decision.
The Coalition government means to restore the Howard-era TPVs as part of its arsenal of measures against asylum-seeker boat arrivals. Asylum seekers in Darwin sent to offshore detention after talking to media. Updated Fri 1 Nov 2013, 12:45pm AEDT Asylum seekers being held at one of Darwin's four immigration detention centres are now wary of talking to the media after two people who spoke to the ABC last week were sent to offshore detention. More than 10 asylum seekers spoke on camera through the fence at the Darwin Airport Lodge last week, with some complaining of poor conditions and others saying they would prefer to stay in detention rather than face persecution or death in their country of origin. They also complained that only two toilets were available for 500 people in one section of the Christmas Island detention facility. Immigration Minister Scott Morrison last week said those complaints were "unsubstantiated".
Messages sent by asylum seekers from inside the Darwin Airport Lodge to Darwin Asylum Seeker Support and Advocacy Network (DASSAN) members this week reveal that two women, who spoke to the ABC on October 24, have been sent to Christmas Island. Do you know more about this story? Asylum seekers in Darwin sent to offshore detention after talking to media. The Geopolitics of Refugee Crises. Prison–industrial complex. USA incarceration timeline The term "prison-industrial complex" (PIC) is used to attribute the rapid expansion of the US inmate population to the political influence of private prison companies and businesses that supply goods and services to government prison agencies.
The term is derived from the "military-industrial complex" of the 1950s. Such groups include corporations that contract prison labor, construction companies, surveillance technology vendors, lawyers, and lobby groups that represent them. Activists[who?] Have argued that the prison-industrial complex is perpetuating a flawed belief that imprisonment is an effective solution to social problems such as homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy. The term 'prison industrial complex' has been used to describe a similar issue in other countries' prisons of expanding populations.[1] History[edit] "Not, Parenti stresses, by making slippery usage of concepts like the 'prison–industrial complex.'
The Problem with the 1951 Refugee Convention. Research Paper 5 2000-01 Adrienne Millbank Social Policy Group 5 September 2000 Contents Major IssuesIntroductionThe Refugee Convention The UN Convention and the refugee 'burden' The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Australia's refugee response The on-shore refugee determination system The problems The definition Inconsistencies of interpretation and application The migration channel Non-departure The exile basis Government concerns and government hypocrisy Inequities Public reaction Economic refugees In summary Options Refugee advocates and NGOs The UNHCR A new international refugee regime Models Conclusion: Implications for Australia Withdraw Reform EndnotesTable 1: Refugees and Others of Concern to UNHCR, 1999 Statistical OverviewTable 2: UN Member States: Signatories and Nonsignatories to the UN Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of RefugeesReferences Glossary Major Issues The Convention defines as a refugee a person: Introduction The Refugee Convention.
Interview: With the work we do, we don’t know if there’ll be a tomorrow. The daily struggle faced by most women and girls in Afghanistan is nothing new. Life is hard. In a country where 87% of women face domestic abuse and only 13% of females over the age of 15 are literate, the rights of women and girls being traded away in peace negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan Government. However, there a number of organisations across Afghanistan working to improve the rights of women across the country. Women for Afghan Women is one of them. The organisation advocates for the rights of Afghan women and works every day to secure, protect and advance Afghan women's human rights in New York and across Afghanistan. Amnesty Australia is partnering with Women for Afghan Women to gather messages from thousands of Australians for women’s rights advocates in Afghanistan. Amnesty Australia spoke to Farkhunda Saamy, the organisation's Afghanistan Country Director, about the challenges facing those who help Afghan women in need and why your support is crucial.
Social justice. Mia Kirshner: The Lives of Refugees. Ment: Assad's war of starvation. Just days ago in London, I listened with sadness and shock as Ahmad Jarba and leaders of the moderate Syrian opposition described how ordinary Syrians with no links to the civil war are forced to eat stray dogs and cats to survive a campaign of deprivation waged by the Assad regime. The world already knows that Bashar Assad has used chemical weapons, indiscriminate bombing, arbitrary detentions, rape and torture against his own citizens. What is far less well known, and equally intolerable, is the systematic denial of medical assistance, food supplies and other humanitarian aid to huge portions of the population. This denial of the most basic human rights must end before the war's death toll — now surpassing 100,000 — reaches even more catastrophic levels.
Reports of severe malnutrition across vast swaths of Syria suffering under regime blockades prompted the United Nations Security Council to issue a presidential statement calling for immediate access to humanitarian assistance. Ment: The mutual misery of the Syrian refugee crisis, Lebanon and Australia. The recent sinking of a refugee boat bound for Australia off Java, which had 68 Lebanese on board, highlights the complexity, magnitude and reach of the Syrian civil war. The effect of the ongoing war in Syria is dramatic. Out of a population of around 22.5 million people, 13 million are regarded by the United Nations as being at risk, 4.25 million are displaced within Syria and over two million are refugees in neighbouring countries.
The number of refugees is constantly growing, and is expected to reach 3.45 million by the end of this year. The international focus has tended to be on the refugees, but the impact on host countries also demands attention. All of Syria’s neighbours - except Israel - have been affected by the flow of refugees which, in the case of Lebanon, has raised fears for the survival of the state. Recently, Lebanese president Michel Sleiman warned the international community that his country faced “a crisis of existence” as a result of the ongoing Syrian civil war. Operation Enhanced Screenings. A Country Too Far: Writings on Asylum Seekers, edited by Rosie Scott and Tom Keneally – book review. Violent biker gangs arriving in Europe prompt fresh fears of new turf war. A Country Too Far: Writings on Asylum Seekers, edited by Rosie Scott and Tom Keneally – book review. Q&A: Migrants and asylum in the EU. Mapping Mediterranean migration.
Niger migrants 'die of thirst' crossing the Sahara. Iran: Honor Afghans’ Right to Seek Asylum. Refugee problem. Ten myths around asylum seekers arriving on boats in Australian waters. Illegal migrants aid hurricane clear-up in US - Americas. Australian Public Intellectual [API] Network. Pontville detention centre to axe workers. Detention Centre. Serco chief executive stands down after scandal. G4S UK Chief Executive Richard Morris Resigns from Embattled Security Firm. Serco Group. Brutal Silence – What I Know … | Castlemaine Vigil in Recognition of Aboriginal Sovereignty & in Solidarity with Refugees.
Malaysia back on board to stop the boats, says Scott Morrison. Two arrested on people smuggling charges. UN: Refugee numbers at highest in 19 years - Asia-Pacific. NSW Fires, Operation Sovereign Borders briefing. First boat arrives as Government says it will hold weekly asylum seeker boat briefings with media. Labor attacks Government's move to end announcements of asylum seeker boat arrivals. First boat arrives as Government says it will hold weekly asylum seeker boat briefings with media. Protection and asylum in Sweden - Migrationsverket. Alternatives to immigration detention prove cheaper, more humane | Global | Children | Economy | Governance | Human Rights | Migration. The camps, a site of exceptionality: Australia's detention of asylum seekers - Details. To deter and deny: Australia and the interdiction of asylum seekers. - Version details.
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