Refugee Update
Mar. 25th, 2018 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyDue to illness, I missed the refugee march today. Here is Manus detainee Mohammad Imran's letter to be read on Palm Sunday.(Here's an interview with Imran, about the Rohingy a, from earlier this year.)
Another suicidal child, this time a ten-year-old boy, has been removed from Nauru despite our government's best legal efforts to keep him there.
Peter Dutton is pressing ahead with humanitarian visas for white South African farmers, commenting: "I'm completely blind as to somebody's skin colour, it makes no difference to me" and borrowing a leaf from President Trump's playbook by declaring media criticism "fake news".
Papua New Guinea has demanded to know when Australia will remove the refugees who remain on Manus Island. So far, 84 of about 600 men have escaped to the United States thanks to the refugee swap deal.
'It’s freedom': Rohingya refugee reaches Florida after horror of Australian detention (GA, 23 February 2018)
Swapped from Manus to Missouri (SBS, 20 February 2018)
'Negative status' asylum seekers on Manus Island left hanging in legal limbo, unable to leave or stay (ABC, 7 March 2018)
Paging Mr. Kafka.
Australia to train Myanmar military despite ethnic cleansing accusations (GA, 6 March 2018). "Defence department spend continues despite claims treatment of Rohingya bears 'hallmarks of a genocide'".
Scathing UN migration report mars Australia's first week on human rights council (GA, 2 March 2018)
Australia's refugee policies are part of a worldwide problem, as the UN’s special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer makes clear: "The primary cause for the massive abuse suffered by migrants in all regions of the world, including torture, rape, enslavement, trafficking and murder, is neither migration itself, nor organised crime, or the corruption of individual officials, but the growing tendency of states to base their official migration policies and practices on deterrence, criminalisation and discrimination, rather than protection, human rights and non-discrimination. States have initiated an escalating cycle of repression and deterrence designed to discourage new arrivals, and involving measures such as the criminalisation and detention of irregular migrants, the separation of family members, inadequate reception conditions and medical care, and the denial or excessive prolongation of status determination or habeas corpus proceedings, including expedited returns in the absence of such proceedings." (See also Why we all need to read ‘The Origins of Totalitarianism’ (Medium.com, 13 February 2017)).
Refugee visas a 'lower priority' not 'slowed down', ASIO boss says (ABC, 28 February 2018)
Paging Mr. Kafka again.
Another suicidal child, this time a ten-year-old boy, has been removed from Nauru despite our government's best legal efforts to keep him there.
Peter Dutton is pressing ahead with humanitarian visas for white South African farmers, commenting: "I'm completely blind as to somebody's skin colour, it makes no difference to me" and borrowing a leaf from President Trump's playbook by declaring media criticism "fake news".
Papua New Guinea has demanded to know when Australia will remove the refugees who remain on Manus Island. So far, 84 of about 600 men have escaped to the United States thanks to the refugee swap deal.
'It’s freedom': Rohingya refugee reaches Florida after horror of Australian detention (GA, 23 February 2018)
Swapped from Manus to Missouri (SBS, 20 February 2018)
'Negative status' asylum seekers on Manus Island left hanging in legal limbo, unable to leave or stay (ABC, 7 March 2018)
Paging Mr. Kafka.
Australia to train Myanmar military despite ethnic cleansing accusations (GA, 6 March 2018). "Defence department spend continues despite claims treatment of Rohingya bears 'hallmarks of a genocide'".
Scathing UN migration report mars Australia's first week on human rights council (GA, 2 March 2018)
Australia's refugee policies are part of a worldwide problem, as the UN’s special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer makes clear: "The primary cause for the massive abuse suffered by migrants in all regions of the world, including torture, rape, enslavement, trafficking and murder, is neither migration itself, nor organised crime, or the corruption of individual officials, but the growing tendency of states to base their official migration policies and practices on deterrence, criminalisation and discrimination, rather than protection, human rights and non-discrimination. States have initiated an escalating cycle of repression and deterrence designed to discourage new arrivals, and involving measures such as the criminalisation and detention of irregular migrants, the separation of family members, inadequate reception conditions and medical care, and the denial or excessive prolongation of status determination or habeas corpus proceedings, including expedited returns in the absence of such proceedings." (See also Why we all need to read ‘The Origins of Totalitarianism’ (Medium.com, 13 February 2017)).
Refugee visas a 'lower priority' not 'slowed down', ASIO boss says (ABC, 28 February 2018)
Paging Mr. Kafka again.
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Date: 2018-03-29 07:00 am (UTC)