Subscribe The Refugee Brief – 1 April 2020 By Kristy Siegfried | 1 April, 2020 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Protect rights and health of refugees and migrants in coronavirus response, says UN. Four UN agencies – OHCHR, IOM, WHO and UNHCR – on Tuesday called for national responses to COVID-19 to include migrants, refugees, the forcibly displaced […]
COVID-19 Update for refugees and people seeking asylum 20 March 2020 Print this As Australia and the world faces the rapidly escalating COVID-19 crisis, we stand with refugees, people seeking asylum and the organisations working with them. A pandemic of this nature, unprecedented in our life-times, brings great uncertainty and fear for all of us,
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The worldwide issue of human trafficking is very much at the forefront of my prayers and awareness. That it is also happening in Australia is all the more reason to take every action to eliminate it within our borders! Thank God for people like Paul Green, a Christian Democrat and Senator, and Caroly Houmes, the
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The Anglican Church of Australia has urged the Federal Government to take another 12,000 refugees from Syria and Iraq, especially Christians and other minorities. The church also asked the Government, as a matter of human decency, to resettle in Australia any refugees and asylum seekers still detained on Manus Island and Nauru, and urged the
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Allow me to present my researched observations about this issue, as well as a recently published article on an effective trial intervention amongst some Aboriginal tribal groups and the possible reasons why it seems to be so impressively successful: I am convinced that governments tend to see financial aid mainly as a political obligation, social
The A Just Australia campaign is managed by the Refugee Council of Australia. The core mission of the campaign is to campaign for positive changes to government policy on refugee and asylum seekers. By working together with prominent Australians and community groups and thousands of concerned individuals, A Just Australia aims to achieve just and
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An alternative to offshore detention by Julian Burnside | Nov 4, 2015 | Asylum Seekers, Human Rights The present system of dealing with asylum seekers who arrive by boat is cruel (intentionally) and hideously expensive. There is a rational alternative to the intentional cruelty of the present system. That system reflects the attempts of both
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Melbourne’s Anglican bishops have again urged the Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Turnbull, to change the narrative on children in detention despite the High Court decision that there is no legal impediment to returning more than 250 asylum seekers to Nauru. In a published statement The Bishops claim “The fact that a legal determination has been
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The scale of … tragedies is shocking but no novelty. It is estimated that since 1993 some 20,000 migrants have died trying to cross Europe’s southern borders. The true figure is undoubtedly higher: Thousands have perished, their deaths unrecorded. Who is to blame? European politicians point the finger at traffickers. On Monday (20.4.2015 my inclusion),
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A COMPLEX ISSUE Some Definitions: “The flow of migrants across borders is controlled increasingly by criminal networks. Due to more restrictive immigration policies in destination countries and improved technology to monitor border crossings, “willing illegal” (inverted commas my addition, in view of the known desperation motivating these individuals and in view of the repeated statements
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REFUGEE ISSUES IN COUNTRIES OF REFUGE INFORMATION GATHERING Who is doing what? Where? (i.e. Map of country in question with aid sites pinpointed) Identify unfilled gaps (geographical, service provision etc.) List of resources available (i.e. legal, funding, social, material resources etc.) THE STRATEGY What is our vision? What has God told us to
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