As the former UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Guterres could promote a more unified approach to helping the displaced.
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The UN’s Charter legally binds it to promote gender equality, but guess what: yes, it’s a man again.
Maintaining a large refugee population when the country is struggling to deal with its own challenges is a big ask
Reports of abuse on Nauru should provide a flashpoint for the Turnbull government to reassess its asylum-seeker policies before more serious harm is inflicted on Australia’s international standing.
Was Immigration Minister Peter Dutton right about refugees’ literacy and numeracy?
Australia’s policy to stop the flow of asylum seeker boats to its shores has increased the number of refugees stranded in Indonesia.
The sheer volume of major humanitarian disasters is stopping us from making genuine changes to the way we respond.
When asked about a plan to resettle an extra 12,000 refugees in Australia, Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi said that the UNHCR determines who is going to be sent to Australia or not. Is that right?
Baddawi camp has been host to Palestinian refugees for years. Now Syrians fleeing their homeland are joining them, how is everyone coping?
Although Africa is familiar with large-scale refugee crises, it is uncommon for it to host people seeking protection from outside the continent, as is the case with thousands of Yemeni refugees.
There is no sound reason why 13,000 should remain the benchmark number for discussions of how many refugees Australia should take.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that Australia takes more refugees than any other through the UNHCR on a per capita basis. Is that right?
Globally, evidence points to children becoming less active because they would rather play computer games than be outdoors.
A summit in Bangkok is discussing the fate of thousands of people who were stranded at sea. Australia is represented but refuses to resettle any refugees, casting doubt on its commitment to a regional solution.
The political rhetoric would suggest that asylum seekers are deserving and economic migrants are undeserving. Yet their motivations overlap and are complex – forced migrants do not fit easily into one category.
Australia may have ‘stopped the boats’ but the tragedy of people drowning at sea continues to our north and is getting worse. A regional solution to the refugee crisis is urgently needed.
This is not about people smuggling, it’s about a displacement crisis of unprecedented proportions.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has announced that asylum seekers residing in Indonesia while awaiting protection will no longer obtain resettlement in Australia. This move puts into serious question…
The office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced a major campaign, #ibelong, to eliminate statelessness within a decade. A noble aim indeed – but before statelessness can be ended…
Thirty lifeless bodies found in the bow of a fishing boat carrying 600 migrants off the coast of Sicily have reignited the debate on illegal crossings in the Mediterranean and how the EU should respond…
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Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Senior Researcher at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
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Research Professor, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University
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Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware
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Professor of Law, University of Essex
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Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, University of Oxford
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Associate professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Deputy Director (Indo-Pacific Research) ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Griffith University
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Professor, Bielefeld University
