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There’s no such thing as a “queue”
With detention facilities on Christmas Island getting closer and closer to capacity, and a Federal election looming, the issue of desperate people seeking asylum on Australian shores remains a hotbed of cheap political point-scoring at the expense of some of the world’s neediest people.
Ethnic Chin flee persecution in Burma
In January 2010 Dr Graham Thom visited the Indian state of Mizoram to talk to Burmese Chin refugees about their plight.
Refoulement in the Asia Pacific
In the Asia Pacific, the international principle of non-refoulement has been ignored twice in the past month. Amnesty International is worried that this is the beginning of a dangerous trend, with a third country already threatening to follow suit.
Not your average classroom
Dr Graham Thom talks about his happy experience visiting the kids and head teachers at Christmas Island school.
First steps on Australian soil
At 5:00am on Wednesday 9 December, Jessica Baird looked out of her hotel window on Christmas Island and saw a boatload of asylum seekers being disembarked from the Australian customs vessel, The Oceanic Viking.
Why don’t Sri Lankan asylum seekers just go to India?
Even though India is a lot closer and already has a large Tamil community, there are quite a few really good reasons why Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers choose to seek protection else where (and it's not because they want better jobs).
Migrant workers in South Korea are not disposable
A recent report by Amnesty International highlights the systematic human rights abuse faced by migrant workers in South Korea
How to protect victims of female genital mutilation
Victims of female genital mutilation will benefit from a complementary protection bill.
Debunking the myth of the refugee ‘queue’
Despite the Rudd Government's reforms to immigration policy, Australia is NOT at risk of being 'flooded' with asylum seekers. In fact, Australia's treatment of refugees is still in breach of international human rights standards.
The evils of temporary protection
I think the opposition's call for the reintroduction of temporary protection visas is misguided and counter-productive.
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