Australia’s campaign for a seat on the Human Rights Council opened it to further scrutiny of its record on such issues.
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Australia’s Human Rights Council election provides an ideal opportunity for it to show leadership and commitment on issues such as refugee flows and the death penalty.
Undocumented migrants are among those helping to rebuild the hardest-hit areas of Oaxaca state, where federal aid has been slow to trickle down.
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A brigade of migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala have interrupted their trek north to stay in Mexico and support earthquake recovery efforts.
A Nepalese political refugee in Brazil in 2013.
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The region has welcomed resettled refugees for a few decades, but it has not always gone smoothly.
A woman from a Rohingya family, in the makeshift provided by a NGO Zakat Foundation of India near Madanpur Khadar, New Delhi.
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What effect does India’s legal precariousness and lack of institutionalised support have on the ground? Most refugee groups have to rely on themselves.
Blond derision.
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The UK foreign secretary has been talking up the merits of clearing away bodies to build a new Dubai on the Libyan Med.
The research group included Hazara who opened kebab shops in Adelaide.
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Humanitarian refugees face many barriers to becoming entrepreneurs, but research shows they are disproportionately entrepreneurial.
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Hans Eysenck’s denial that he was Jewish throws light on the psychological problems faced by refugees who belong to persecuted ethnic groups.
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Along the Balkan route, refugees and migrants are still in need of emergency aid.
South Koreans protest against China’s treatment of northern defectors.
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Tens of thousands of North Koreans live in China. Their lives are often no better than they were at home.
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Michelle Grattan speaks with Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics.
Peter Dutton made snide comments about the refugees departing Nauru and Manus Island for the US in an interview on 2GB.
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A possible risk from Peter Dutton’s outburst is if his remarks carry any impact in the US.
Syrian refugees wait on August 28, 2017 at the Oncupinar crossing gate, close to the town of Kilis, south central Turkey, as they wait to cross to Syria for the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday.
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In Turkey, while many have left Syria to find asylum, most refugees are struggling to be socially and economically integrated.
Art and Seek Workshop participants examining locks of Keats’s hair and the painting P.B. Shelley in the Baths of Caracalla by Joseph Severn.
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Was John Keats a refugee in his day? A workshop for refugees, migrants and artists took place recently at Keats-Shelley House and the story of the great Romantic poet’s life and death hit a nerve.
Vietnamese at a camp in Guam seeking repatriation, September 1975.
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Not all who fled Vietnam at the end of the war wanted to be resettled in the US. But those who returned faced an unwelcoming government.
A naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles.
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As Congress takes up the issue of immigration, we turned to our global network of scholars to get their perspective on how points systems work.
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Genocide doesn’t begin with mass murder. It’s a long, insidious process that can be stopped before it’s too late.
While ASEAN leaders are increasingly using the rhetoric of prioritising the people in ASEAN, they are often hesitant to drastically change the longstanding regional framework that gives a lot of power to the hands of member states’ elites.
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ASEAN should improve the accreditation process for civil society organisation (CSOs) to support more community-based activities that can help solve regional problems.
Refugees continue to make the journey between Libya and Italy, despite the risk of being turned back or sent to a detention centre.
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Like Australia and the US before it, Europe is now flirting with the idea of processing centres for refugees in transit countries.
Andrea Swifte as the mother in Big Heart: a nuanced and not unsympathetic performance.
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Big Heart at Theatreworks questions Australia’s generosity through the tale of a woman who adopts a child from five continents.
Migrants from Myanmar at the gate of an immigration detention center in Medan on 5 April 2013.
Relevant government officials in Indonesia acknowledge that immigration detention facilities should not be used for housing refugees and asylum seekers. But finding alternatives to detention to accommodate asylum seekers has been difficult.
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A new decree states that local administrations may be asked to provide shelter for asylum seekers and refugees. In reality, this may be rather challenging.