Refugees' Human Rights
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Millions of people around the world have no choice but to flee their homeland to escape persecution and conflict. Refugees seek asylum in other countries so they can rebuild their lives, free from fear and violence. Because of the reasons they are forced to leave, they are often unable to obtain proper passports and visas.
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India’s forgotten refugees
In a remote forest in West Bengal is one of the oldest and most forgotten refugee camps in India. It is home to thousands of people, but few Indians even know it exists.
Christmas Island - looks and feels like a prison
There are a few things that strike you about Christmas Island and its new detention centre. Firstly, the island's remoteness from the Australian mainland, and the logistical difficulties in getting there, are brought home when you depart Perth's international airport, passport in hand.
Our refugee coordinator Graham Thom, along with our national director Claire Mallinson and board vice president Jim Sharp, has just visited the new Christmas Island detention centre. These are their observations.
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Iraqi refugees facing desperate situation
The international community is evading its responsibility towards refugees from Iraq by promoting a false picture of the security situation in Iraq when the country is neither safe nor suitable for return.
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Refugee Week
Refugee Week runs between 15-21 June and is a good time to acknowledge recent developments the Australian Government has made to improve the human rights of refugees and asylum seekers. That said, there is still a lot more we need to do.
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“Forgotten refugees"- the Rohingya in Bangladesh
In March 2007 we joined The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the Centre for Refugee Research and a number of other Australian NGOs for consultations with Burmese, Rohingyan, refugees in camps in Bangladesh. Our mission was to work with the refugees, document human rights violations, and where possible, to develop solutions addressing some of the appalling conditions facing those in the camps.
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Life without a future for Sudan’s internally displaced people?
The situation in Sudan continues to become more and more aggravated with no end in sight. As UN forces finished their third weeks of operations in Darfur last week, we published a new report outlining the plight of the hundreds of thousands of internally displace people in Darfur and the potential consequences.
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Lao refugees must be allowed to safely resettle
About 154 Lao Hmong refugees are held in an Immigration Detention Center in northern Thailand in appalling conditions. At least 90 of the group are children, some of them born in the Centre. Call on the Thai authorities to release them and allow them to resettle in other countries.
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