Refugee Update
Mar. 25th, 2016 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyRemaining two refugees in Cambodia rue leaving Nauru (SMH, 13 March 2016) | Tracking down two refugees in Cambodia (SMH, 19 March 2016) | Greens refer $55 million refugee resettlement deal with Cambodia to the Auditor General (SMH, 13 March 2016). Sickness, poverty, misery - and Australian lies.
Asylum seeker who suffered heart attack on Manus to be taken to Australia (GA, 23 March 2016) | Manus detainee flown off island for medical treatment after collapsing (ABC, 23 March 2016). Let him stay.
Detainees on Nauru continue their rolling protests, after 1,000 days plus in detention. (Huffington Post, 23 March 2016)
Figures from The Weekend Australian (19-20 March, 2016): "Right now, a record 13,679 people are registered with the UNHCR in Indonesia to go through the formal refugee resettlement process - compared to 8332 in 2013. In 2015, the UNHCR submitted close to 1000 cases to resettlement countries but just 600 departed." The article, "Time for Asia to shoulder the burden of asylum settlement", claims that asylum seekers who reached Indonesia would leave there at once for Australia by boat, but are now registering with the UNHCR instead. The result: "... asylum-seekers in Indonesia are now waiting up to two years for their first formal interview, with little means of support... Unless regional nations showed a willingness to pitch in, and Australia overturned its refusal to accept even UNHCR-referred refugees who arrived in Indonesia after 2014, that situation would only deteriorate, [UNHCR Indonesia representative] Mr Vargas warned." (my emphasis) We've closed the "queue"? No wonder people are still getting on boats.
Australia signs landmark regional agreement to tackle people smuggling (GA, 24 March 2016): the non-binding deal, part of the forty-five nation Bali Process, recommends that member states "explore potential temporary protection and local-stay arrangements for asylum seekers and refugees" and "explore alternatives to detention for vulnerable groups".
Immigration Department broke law by publishing asylum seekers' private details (SMH, 14 November 2015) | Asylum seeker data breach case bound for high court after Peter Dutton appeals (GA, 21 March 2016)
Asylum seeker who suffered heart attack on Manus to be taken to Australia (GA, 23 March 2016) | Manus detainee flown off island for medical treatment after collapsing (ABC, 23 March 2016). Let him stay.
Detainees on Nauru continue their rolling protests, after 1,000 days plus in detention. (Huffington Post, 23 March 2016)
Figures from The Weekend Australian (19-20 March, 2016): "Right now, a record 13,679 people are registered with the UNHCR in Indonesia to go through the formal refugee resettlement process - compared to 8332 in 2013. In 2015, the UNHCR submitted close to 1000 cases to resettlement countries but just 600 departed." The article, "Time for Asia to shoulder the burden of asylum settlement", claims that asylum seekers who reached Indonesia would leave there at once for Australia by boat, but are now registering with the UNHCR instead. The result: "... asylum-seekers in Indonesia are now waiting up to two years for their first formal interview, with little means of support... Unless regional nations showed a willingness to pitch in, and Australia overturned its refusal to accept even UNHCR-referred refugees who arrived in Indonesia after 2014, that situation would only deteriorate, [UNHCR Indonesia representative] Mr Vargas warned." (my emphasis) We've closed the "queue"? No wonder people are still getting on boats.
Australia signs landmark regional agreement to tackle people smuggling (GA, 24 March 2016): the non-binding deal, part of the forty-five nation Bali Process, recommends that member states "explore potential temporary protection and local-stay arrangements for asylum seekers and refugees" and "explore alternatives to detention for vulnerable groups".
Immigration Department broke law by publishing asylum seekers' private details (SMH, 14 November 2015) | Asylum seeker data breach case bound for high court after Peter Dutton appeals (GA, 21 March 2016)
