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Lack of understanding
Amnesty International’s Afghanistan researcher Halima Kazem critiques a new agreement between Afghanistan and Australia.
Australia eased my memories of war
Najeeba Wazefadost arrived in Australia as a refugee from Afghanistan when she was just 12 years old.
A year ago on Christmas Island
Jessica Baird gives her account of the calm morning when she witnessed the arrival of asylum seekers on the shore of Christmas Island.
Sri Lanka: 18 months after civil war
Refugee Coordinator Dr. Graham Thom travels to Sri Lanka to find what life is like for the Tamil now that hostilities from 30 years of civil conflict have ceased.
Stopping the spin on ‘the boats’
Introducing Amnesty International’s new campaign - and the research behind it - which seeks to change the asylum seeker debate in Australia.
Playing the waiting game in 42 degree heat
Jessica Baird blogs on the Curtin Immigration Detention Centre which reopened in July.
Stories from detention; shrapnel, stress and self-harm
Louise Allen, Amnesty International Australia's Government Relations Advisor, recounts her memories of a week spent visiting Australia's Immigration Detention facilities.
How Labor roped Timor into asylum seeker vote-grabbing
Refugee campaign Coordinator Dr Graham Thom considers the questions that the government left unanswered in establishing a regional protection framework for refugees.
The ‘Pacific Solution’ repackaged?
Alex Pagliaro, Amnesty's Refugee Action Coordinator, evaluates the Prime Minister's new approach to asylum seekers, and finds that what started promisingly left several questions unanswered.
A journalist vanishes, along with our compassion
Refugee campaign Coordinator Dr Graham Thom considers the realities for many people living in Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, in light of the Australian Government's suspension on processing of their applications for asylum.
Trapped - migrant workers in Malaysia
Dr Graham Thom blogs from the field in Malaysia, where he is visiting refugee and migrant worker communities and supporting the launch of Amnesty International's report on conditions for migrant workers in Malaysia.
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.
A policeman's job is to protect all citizens, even those he or she doesn't like. I'd have thought that a pretty basic concept.
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21 May 2012, 03:59PM