Australia's Afghan cameleers' forgotten history revived by their living relatives. Updated about an hour agoSat 1 Feb 2020, 11:29pm More than 120 years ago, thousands of camel drivers from Afghanistan and the provinces of Pakistan and India left their homes and families for the unknown shores of Australia.
Wearing turbans and carrying their Korans, the men were known as cameleers, Afghans or Ghans. Key points: The life of an Iranian refugee in Jakarta: 'Of course I feel less than a human being' - RN. Updated Mozhgan Moarefizadeh is 26 years old, ambitious, driven, and in love.
She's ready to start a career, get married, and have kids. She's ready to live, basically. But none of that is available to her. It's illegal for her to get married, to work, or to study, and she can't bear to bring kids an existence where they'd live like she does — without basic rights or hopes for the future. Her life has been on hold for the past five years, and it's likely to stay that way for a long time. More applicants failing Australia's citizenship test following increase of passing mark.
Updated November 11, 2015 07:13:20 A growing number of applicants are failing Australia's citizenship test in the wake of changes which increased the mark needed to pass.
The percentage of people failing the test has increased steadily since 2010-11, following the Department of Immigration and Border Control's move to increase the passing mark from 60 per cent to 73 per cent in 2009. It remains a relatively small number at less than 2,200 people, or 1.9 per cent, in the previous financial year, according to the Department's annual report. A spokesperson for the Department of Immigration and Border Protection told the ABC that applicants from approximately 80 different countries failed the citizenship test through 2014-15.
Afghanistan Cambodia China Ethiopia India Iraq Lebanon Myanmar Sudan Vietnam Concerns have also been raised for refugees attempting the citizenship test, citing lower success rates and insufficient English levels. Interactive graphic. Australia's asylum debate viewed from Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp. Abdirashid Sheik Mohamed fled Somalia with his two younger sisters in 1991.
His parents and the rest of his siblings were killed, and he escaped only with the help of his neighbours. He was five. About 10 years later, living in the Dadaab refugee camp just across the border with Kenya, Rashid and his sisters were provisionally approved for resettlement to the United States. At the final step – a DNA test – a problem emerged. Rashid’s youngest sister was not his real sister. As far as life in Dadaab goes, Rashid is making a pretty good go of it. My Place for teachers. One and tuppence.
One and thruppence. Dont let your father see that. One and sixpence. A fortune! Not yet. Darwin hospital struggling with asylum trauma. By Jane Bardon Updated Tue 20 Mar 2012, 12:34pm AEDT Darwin's major hospital is struggling to treat the large number of asylum seekers who have been traumatised by immigration detention, the Australian Medical Association says.
Many asylum seekers have attempted suicide, and some have to be admitted to the psychiatric ward. Doctors say up to five asylum seekers are brought to the Royal Darwin Hospital every day, and the association has accused the Federal Government of ignoring the fact that the hospital cannot cope with the numbers. AMA Territory president Paul Bauert says staff at the hospital, who already have to deal with the highest rates of illness in Australia, are overloaded and frustrated.
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ASCI » Australians assisting Asylum seekers in detention. Australia. Refugee Council of Australia. ANGLICARE NT - Community Outreach of the Anglican Church - Refugee and Migrant Services. Refugees: Donate now to help Médecins Sans Frontières Australia provide urgently needed medical assistance. When families have lost everything, your donation can prevent them from losing their lives.
Refugees walking for days in the heat from conflict in Sudan. Many people died along the way from dehydration. © Louise Roland-Gosselin In a refugee crisis, large numbers of people are driven from their homes, usually to save their lives – in other words, they have little choice but to flee. People who are displaced because of conflict may have witnessed atrocities or been victims of violence. All refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) will have lost their homes, at least temporarily, and very often relatives, friends and neighbours as well. What problems do refugees and IDPs face? Refugees wait to be allocated shelters at an IDP camp in Kenya in 2008. © Brendan Bannon It can take days, weeks or even months for refugees and IDPs to arrive at a settlement or refugee camp.
Expert medical care is vital. Melaleuca Refugee Centre – Home. DASSAN - Darwin asylum seeker support and advocacy network - HOME. Anh Do. Refugees Immigration. UNHCR Global Trends 2011. Rethink Refugees. Go Back to Where You Came From. As a result of ongoing conflict, many of Mogadishu’s ministry buildings, universities, schools and colleges have become refugee camps.
Somalia, located in the horn of Africa has experienced ongoing conflict since the collapse of its central government in 1991. It is estimated over one million people have died as a result of famine and ongoing fighting between rival warloads. The Democratic Republic of Congo. An unstable nation since 1960, The DRC has over 1.7 million internally displaced people and 400,000 instances of rape per year.
The DRC is the 3rd largest country in Africa, the size of Western Europe. The DRC has endured turmoil since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960. Rated amongst the poorest countries of the world its people should be rich with natural resources and raw minerals estimated worth $24+ trillion US. The $870m diamond industry provides work for around 1 million people, but many diggers earn less than $1 a day in dangerous conditions. Go Back to Where You Came From. Thousands of Afghanistan's 800,000 internally displaced people have fled to Kabul, living in refugee camps and urban slums. In Afghanistan there are some 1.3 million people of concern according to the UNHCR, comprising asylum-seekers, refugees, returning refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs). The first half of 2011 saw a rapid increase in conflict-induced internal displacement, creating nearly 100,000 new IDPs and bringing the total IDP population to approximately 500,000 people by mid-year.
There are currently an estimated 3,054,709 Afghan citizens living overseas, with the vast majority in Iran (1,019,700) and Pakistan (1,900,000). In Pakistan, the vast majority of refugees live in refugee villages and urban slums, while in Iran around 97 per cent of the refugee population lives in urban areas. Many of these refugees, particularly in Iran, have lived outside their country for 30 years. Go Back to Where You Came From. Iraqis make up the 2nd largest refugee population in the world with an estimated 2 million people having fled the country since 2003. The United States officially ended its seven-year combat operations in August 2010, reducing the number of troops to about 49,700. The US and Iraq have agreed that all US military personnel will leave the country by the end of this year. Iraq is still a very dangerous place. According to the Iraq Body Count website, an average of over 200 people are killed in the country every month.
UNHCR estimates there are over 1.5 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in Iraq, as of January last year. Refugee puts heart into helping others. Refugees find their niche in Australia. There are signs that support for Australia's uncompromising stance on asylum is beginning to weaken in the country's conservative heartlands. A large number of refugees who have been released from detention on temporary protection visas live and work in the outback. Many have become a vital part of the local area. Some farming communities - often associated with reactionary views on immigration - are now actively campaigning for a softening of official policy to allow the refugees to stay permanently.
It is as much about economics as it is about compassion. Environmental migrants: our next wave of refugees? - The Drum Opinion. Find More Stories Environmental migrants: our next wave of refugees? Khalid Koser Australia needs a national policy to address environmental migration. Our national interest demands that the process begins now, writes Khalid Koser. The "loss and damage" caused by climate change, negotiated into the final text of the Doha Climate Change meeting last Friday, will force people to leave their homes in their millions. Media - Vietnamese refugees and their children's future. Overview Helen Huynh's young uncle was one of the 2,200 Vietnamese refugees who came to Australia in the 1970s. She explains the obligations that refugees' children feel, and shows how she supports her parents. 2 mins 38 secs Source: The Making of Modern Australia | Learning area: History | Secondary: Year 10.
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