around the world and at the end of 1999 there were 1.2 million asylum applications pending worldwide‚ as reported by the Refugees by Numbers‚ 2000 edition. Under Australian Law and International Law a person is entitled to make an application for refugee asylum in another country when they allege that they are escaping persecution. Every person who arrives in Australia without a valid visa or travel document is deemed to have arrived illegally and is held in immigration detention. Detention is
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INTRODUCTION The Syrian Refugee Crisis is certainly a hot-button issue today. It has been the subject of major political debate in the last federal election‚ with many criticising the Conservative Government for its slow speed‚ lack of commitment‚ and alleged cherry-picking attitude towards refugee resettlement. The Liberal Party‚ meanwhile‚ capitalized on the emotional atmosphere following the release of the photograph of the Syrian child‚ Alan Kurdi‚ dead on a Turkish beach; they pledged to bring
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Rouge. Many Cambodians were killed‚ many were forced into manual labour and many managed to escape. Many Cambodians fled to the massive refugee camps along the Thai border where they would stay for years‚ hoping for resettlement. The camps were overcrowded and many people did not get enough food. There was little hope for relocation and many had to stay in the refugee camps for years before finally being accepted into a country. The war had left Vietnam in ruins‚ the state of both the north and the
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to state sovereignty. Finally‚ it will enter into a well-supported argument that there is no evidence to support this claim‚ and it therefore does not constitute sufficient reason to shirk a nation’s responsibilities under international law‚ the Refugee Convention‚ or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 2011 Global Trends report shows that forced displacement is increasing. This is mostly attributed to civil wars in African
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THE IMPACT of REFUGEE MIGRATION on social development of Dadaab communities By Watila Wanyonyi SHUKRI ABASS MOHAMED ADMISSION NO‚ C40/66232/2011 This Project is in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of post graduate diploma in Security and strategic studies at the University of Nairobi. Declaration This research project is my original work
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emphasizing on improving access to information to facilitate international humanitarian coordination for response and relief efforts. Information sharing aids in the efficiency of refugees services such as funding‚ response time‚ food distribution and health services. While information technology is essential for organizational efforts‚ the challenge is to serve as a tool for collaboration between vertical organizations. The 2005 World Disasters Report concluded disaster affected people “need information
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coalition rejects the governments’ Malaysian Solution because Malaysia is not part of the UN Refugee Convention. Refugee advocacy groups view that Australian laws are not effective in protecting the lives and rights of asylum seekers. Advocacy groups include Amnesty International and Refugee Council of Australia etc. They view mandatory detention is a breach of human rights and which greatly impacts on mental health as asylum seekers face trauma during their journey to Australia and worsened by detention
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she started the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation project dedicated to conservation in Cambodia‚ which later expanded to agriculture‚ education‚ health care‚ vocational training‚ infrastructure In 2003‚ she was the first recipient of the Citizen of the World Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association In 2005‚ she launched the National Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Children‚ an organization that provides free legal aid to young asylum-seekers 2005 she was awarded the Global Humanitarian
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to the United Nations Refugee Agency‚ 182‚621 Syrian refugees were living in Turkey mid-February 2013. With the influx of huge numbers of Syrians into Turkey‚ anti-immigrant‚ anti-Arab discourses have surfaced among the Turkish public.” (Senay Ozden) Consequently‚ the Turkish public is not particularly happy about the Syrian refugee crisis because thousands of people are coming into their country and consuming their resources. Samira Shackle suggests that the Syrian refugee crisis is not only happening
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Australia’s imposition of mandatory detention‚ for the asylum seekers who arrive in Australia by boat without visa’s and how this is in violation of common human rights principles. An asylum seeker is a person who has left their home country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another country. This policy was introduced in 1992 and has since been a highly controversial issue that has generated considerable debate. The policy of mandatory detention is in breach of a number of international human
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