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dreamer_easy) wrote2014-02-28 06:51 pm
dreamer_easy) wrote2014-02-28 06:51 pm
Weekly Refugee Posting 4: other recent news
There's a petition up on change.org to prevent Rohingya asylum seeker Latifa and her infant son Farus to Nauru. (The Department of Immigration has found itself innocent of needlessly separating mother and newborn child.)
A Rohingyan couple on Nauru have opted for an abortion, rather than give birth only to have their child die in the detention centre's unsafe conditions.
Humanitarian Research Partners have requested documents under FOI on miscarriages on Christmas Island in November and December last year, as reported by several asylum seekers. The response was that the documents don't exist.
10 unaccompanied children have been sent to Nauru. (Save the Children provides support for children detained on Nauru.)
About 50 refugees are currently indefinitely detained in Australia after receiving negative security assessments from ASIO. The UN ordered that they be released no later than this week and compensated. It seems unlikely that the government will do so.
Human rights advocate Ben Pynt, arguing for journalistic access to the detention centres, makes the interesting point that "In the UK, where only some asylum seekers are detained, anyone can visit immigration detention facilities at any time." (Presumably because they are not, as Liz Thompson describes Manus Island, "designed as an experiment in the active creation of horror".)
A seventh boat carrying asylum seekers has been turned back to Indonesia. Clearly, the turn-back policy may be stopping boats from reaching Australia, but it is not stopping them from trying.
Afghanistan's Defence Minister says that the country is not safe for refugees to return to.
Finally, while I won't waste electrons here reporting on the irrelevant mudslinging in Parliament, I did want to mention the splendid word "Batman-ification", used by columnist Jacqueline Maley in her "sketch" of recent shenanigans in the House. She also draws a comparison to Animal House. Vale Harold Ramis. After this week we could use a bloody smile.
A Rohingyan couple on Nauru have opted for an abortion, rather than give birth only to have their child die in the detention centre's unsafe conditions.
Humanitarian Research Partners have requested documents under FOI on miscarriages on Christmas Island in November and December last year, as reported by several asylum seekers. The response was that the documents don't exist.
10 unaccompanied children have been sent to Nauru. (Save the Children provides support for children detained on Nauru.)
About 50 refugees are currently indefinitely detained in Australia after receiving negative security assessments from ASIO. The UN ordered that they be released no later than this week and compensated. It seems unlikely that the government will do so.
Human rights advocate Ben Pynt, arguing for journalistic access to the detention centres, makes the interesting point that "In the UK, where only some asylum seekers are detained, anyone can visit immigration detention facilities at any time." (Presumably because they are not, as Liz Thompson describes Manus Island, "designed as an experiment in the active creation of horror".)
A seventh boat carrying asylum seekers has been turned back to Indonesia. Clearly, the turn-back policy may be stopping boats from reaching Australia, but it is not stopping them from trying.
Afghanistan's Defence Minister says that the country is not safe for refugees to return to.
Finally, while I won't waste electrons here reporting on the irrelevant mudslinging in Parliament, I did want to mention the splendid word "Batman-ification", used by columnist Jacqueline Maley in her "sketch" of recent shenanigans in the House. She also draws a comparison to Animal House. Vale Harold Ramis. After this week we could use a bloody smile.
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