Hashaw Elkins

UN agencies concerned about Australia refugee plan

August 17th, 2012 | Posted by Reuters: World News in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

GENEVA (Reuters) - Australia's plan to reopen detention centers on remote Pacific islands for asylum seekers and migrants who arrive by sea could violate their human rights and harm their mental health, the United Nations warned on Friday.

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Australia says refugee boat missing with 67 people on board

August 14th, 2012 | Posted by Reuters: World News in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Great fears are held for 67 people, presumed to be asylum seekers, on board a boat that has been missing since it left Indonesia more than a month ago and may have sunk, Australian authorities said on Tuesday.

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Australia ship arrives at scene of boat in distress

July 4th, 2012 | Posted by Reuters: World News in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

JAKARTA/CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian navy ship was standing ready on Wednesday to help a boat carrying up to 180 people, presumed to be asylum seekers, authorities said, the third boat to send distress signals in the past three weeks between Indonesia and Australia.

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Nearly 100 still missing in boat capsize near Australia

June 21st, 2012 | Posted by Reuters: World News in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Nearly 100 suspected asylum seekers are still missing a day after a boat capsized about 200 km north of Australia's Christmas Island, Australia's minister for home affairs said on Friday.

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Asylum Seekers’ Boat Capsizes

June 21st, 2012 | Posted by WSJ.com: World News in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

A major rescue effort is under way after a boat carrying up to 200 asylum seekers capsized off the coast of Australia's remote Christmas Island, in an incident likely to again turn the spotlight on border control policies.

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Boat carrying 200 capsizes between Indonesia and Australia

June 21st, 2012 | Posted by Reuters: World News in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A boat carrying about 200 suspected asylum seekers has capsized in Indonesian waters 120 nautical miles north of Australia's Christmas Island and many are feared drowned, authorities said on Thursday.

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Asylum Seekers, Then and Now

May 10th, 2012 | Posted by All Foreign Affairs Content in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

A Short History of Escape

May 10, 2012

Anna Husarska

Summary:

China's Chen Guangchen, the asylum seeker of the moment, is hardly unique. All oppressive regimes generate defectors, but each regime deals with them in its own way.

A boat crowded with Cuban refugees arrives in Florida, during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift.

China is not a leader in breeding asylum seekers. That distinction is shared by Cuba, for the quantity of departures, and North Korea, for the frequency of attempts.

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EU Asylum Seekers Win Concession

December 21st, 2011 | Posted by WSJ.com: World News in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

Europe's top court ruled that the U.K. and other European governments should not return asylum seekers who entered the EU through Greece to that country, saying they cannot be exposed to "inhuman or degrading" conditions.

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