Spain has agreed to allow the Aquarius, a boat carrying 629 migrants, to dock in Valencia. But the EU remains gridlocked over asylum rules.
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Countries have some flexibility in interpreting UN agreements on refugee rights. But Sessions’ decision that abused women don’t qualify for asylum in the US is an extraordinarily severe ruling.
If an undocumented migrant is a minor or an adult can have far-reaching implications. A forensic anthropologist explains why relying solely on dental X-rays to determine age doesn’t work.
Justin Trudeau’s pattern of bizarre behaviour is coming into focus, previously obscured by his progressive politics and human rights activism at home and abroad.
Anthony Albanese on Labor’s National Conference
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Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese is confident their candidates will win back their seats and is gearing up for the ALP's National Conference in late July.
Rather than closing a loophole in a Canada-U.S. agreement that allows Canadian officials to turn back asylum-seekers from the U.S. at the border, the deal should be abolished outright.
New research confirms a ‘refugee gap’ in employment levels, which is exacerbated if refugees are dispersed around a country.
In recent years a number of NGOs have provided services for child refugees. The government should consider partnering them to provide child refugees their rights to protection.
Some 200 Central Americans who fled violence at home want to apply for asylum in the US. Trump says they’re ‘not welcome.’ Here, key info on the ‘caravan’ to the US-Mexico border.
The most morally monstrous actions might work as deterrents but be unacceptable morally even to the most casual conscience.
It’s time to stop the brutality of the UK’s ‘hostile environment’ for migrants.
The German approach to refugees is becoming increasingly binary: if you are not a refugee, you must leave; if you are a refugee, you must integrate.
A day after agreeing a deal on resettling African asylum seekers with the UNHCR rather than forcibly deporting them, Israel announced the deal was off.
As countries compete to deter asylum seekers, there’s a vicious cycle in which governments seek to outdo each other by implementing progressively more restrictive policies.
A longtime Crown ward since he was a child refugee, Abdoul Abdi is far more of a product of Canada than Somalia. Why is the government attempting to deport him after failing him so badly as a child?
Politics podcast: the Batman byelection battleground
On Saturday, Labor and Bill Shorten face a major test in the Melbourne seat of Batman.
Why are Iraqi applicants for asylum in the UK treated so much worse than Syrians?
Legal technicalities and political priorities make it hard for North Koreans to settle on British soil.
Eritreans in Israel aren’t all fleeing persecution, but many have risked everything for a better life in Israel. Now they’re at risk of being ‘sold’ back to Africa.
To avoid another refugee ‘crisis’ that would take the world by surprise, East Asia would do well to be prepared for an influx of people from North Korea.
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