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Mar. 11th, 2015
Refugee Update: As Others See Us
Mar. 11th, 2015 12:42 pmFirstly, update on Nauru: Goodwill letters to asylum seekers on Nauru returned unopened. Julian Burnside was told the letters, from Australians, were being distributed to detainees. This was a lie.
The eyes of the world:
Report of the [United Nations Human Rights Council] Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Juan E. Méndez (the Méndez Report) has found that "Australia is systematically violating the international Convention Against Torture by detaining children in immigration detention, and holding asylum seekers in dangerous and violent conditions on Manus Island."
Amnesty International's 2015 State of the World's Human Rights report is critical of Australia in three areas: refugees and asylum seekers, Indigenous rights, and counter-terrorism and security legislation.
Human Rights Watch World Report 2015 makes similar criticisms. The director of HRW Australia, Elaine Pearson, noted that "Australia's obsession with offshore processing of asylum seekers means that government is willing to turn a blind eye to human rights abuses in places like Cambodia and Sri Lanka, because Australia feels it needs those countries onside in order to achieve its policy goals".
Fiji PM Frank Bainimarama criticises Australia's regime for resettling asylum seekers in Pacific
The eyes of the world:
Report of the [United Nations Human Rights Council] Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Juan E. Méndez (the Méndez Report) has found that "Australia is systematically violating the international Convention Against Torture by detaining children in immigration detention, and holding asylum seekers in dangerous and violent conditions on Manus Island."
Amnesty International's 2015 State of the World's Human Rights report is critical of Australia in three areas: refugees and asylum seekers, Indigenous rights, and counter-terrorism and security legislation.
Human Rights Watch World Report 2015 makes similar criticisms. The director of HRW Australia, Elaine Pearson, noted that "Australia's obsession with offshore processing of asylum seekers means that government is willing to turn a blind eye to human rights abuses in places like Cambodia and Sri Lanka, because Australia feels it needs those countries onside in order to achieve its policy goals".
Fiji PM Frank Bainimarama criticises Australia's regime for resettling asylum seekers in Pacific
What are we going to do with you, mate?
I'm sure you'd argue that it's free speech when you sticker the local bus stops and electricity boxes. It's not. It's vandalism and it's harassment. If you don't already keep a blog and write letters to the editor and the government, why don't you try that instead?
I think we both know the answers. Firstly, because then you'd have to own up to your views - maybe even defend them. That's a lot harder than anonymously trying to make Australians feel unwelcome in their own community. Secondly, it's because our community rejected your views decades ago. That's why, as soon as you go on another stickering spree, the stickers come straight down - whether easily peeled off when they're still fresh, or painstakingly removed a little at a time by a succession of passing thumbnails.
I don't think you belong to one of those scary little groups, or there'd be a URL or PO Box in tiny letters somewhere on one of your efforts. I don't think you have mental problems, either. I think you're just a bitter individual who can't accept that the world keeps turning whether we like it or not.
By the way, if we speak English in Australia, why don't you learn to fucking spell?
I'm sure you'd argue that it's free speech when you sticker the local bus stops and electricity boxes. It's not. It's vandalism and it's harassment. If you don't already keep a blog and write letters to the editor and the government, why don't you try that instead?
I think we both know the answers. Firstly, because then you'd have to own up to your views - maybe even defend them. That's a lot harder than anonymously trying to make Australians feel unwelcome in their own community. Secondly, it's because our community rejected your views decades ago. That's why, as soon as you go on another stickering spree, the stickers come straight down - whether easily peeled off when they're still fresh, or painstakingly removed a little at a time by a succession of passing thumbnails.
I don't think you belong to one of those scary little groups, or there'd be a URL or PO Box in tiny letters somewhere on one of your efforts. I don't think you have mental problems, either. I think you're just a bitter individual who can't accept that the world keeps turning whether we like it or not.
By the way, if we speak English in Australia, why don't you learn to fucking spell?