Hazara Asylum Seekers in Tanjung Pinang camp Indonesia on hunger strike
A hunger strike have been started in Tanjung Pinang camp, Indonesia against the worse policy of unhcr and dule process of cases in camp. Hazara asylum seekers were thinking the UNHCR do have any clear and positive policy for asylum seekers. But now everything the same as past. The asylum seekers demanding changes and speedy in process of their cases. More...
AFP warning saves sinking boatpeople
by: Peter Alford | From: The Australian | April 11, 2012 VIDEO: Asylum seekers forced off tanker in Java AUSTRALIAN Federal Police gave the warning that led to 120 Afghan asylum-seekers being rescued from a sinking More...
National rally takes to Darwin streets against refugee detention
By Jay Fletcher, Darwin | Friday, April 6, 2012 About 120 people march for refugees in Dawrin, April 6. Photo: Jay Fletcher About 120 refugee rights activists from multiple Australian cities gathered outside More...
Europe no sanctuary for Afghan asylum seekers
Afghans hoping to escape violence and a lack of economic prospects at home face new challenges and new abuses in Europe. Ali M Latifi Last Modified: 23 Mar 2012 With few prospects and More...
Hanged man ‘could have been saved’
Alana Buckley-Carr, The West Australian March 9, 2012 An Afghan asylum seeker who hanged himself in the Curtin immigration detention centre last year could have been saved if staff were properly equipped, according More...
More than 500 refugee kids still in detention
Saturday, February 18, 2012 By Jay Fletcher A protest last year outside Melbourne's Broadmeadows detention centre, which holds about 140 refugee minors. Photo: Indymedia.org.au The federal immigration department More...
Red tape delayed search for missing refugee boat
Natalie O’Brien February 16, 2012 A bureaucratic bungle... commission hears details of a delayed sea rescue where 105 asylum seekers drowned. Photo: AFP AN ASYLUM-SEEKER boat that is believed to have sunk, More...
Boat with 125 asylum seekers stopped
February 11, 2012 A boat carrying 125 suspected asylum seekers on board has been intercepted north of Christmas Island. HMAS Maryborough, operating under the control of Border Protection, intercepted the boat on More...
At-a-glance: Australian-Afghan asylum agreement
08 February 2012 | 03:56:03 PM | Source: AAP More than 4000 Afghans have arrived in Australia claiming asylum since 2008, with half of all arrivals by boat heralding from the troubled country.A legal challenge is More...
Asylum seekers left for dead in Indonesian boat tragedy
Survivors at a makeshift care centre at Prigi beach in East Java, Indonesia. Picture: Lukman Bintoro THE captain and crew of a stricken fishing boat put on life jackets and swam for their lives, leaving up to 200 More...
