Women flee Vietnam for second time following turn-back from Australia
Three women who fled Vietnam, only to be sent back by the Australian Government, have again fled their homeland, as Vietnamese authorities "strictly punish"...
Vietnamese asylum seekers forcibly returned by Australia face jail
The second boat carrying Vietnamese asylum seekers off the Western Australian coast in July 2015. Photograph: ABC TV
Four people go on trial after four...
Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Country Information Report: Vietnam, 21 June...
http://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/Documents/country-information-report-vietnam.pdf
Vietnamese asylum seekers secretly held at sea for more than a month, commander tells...
HMAS Choules arrives in Sydney
PHOTO: The asylum seekers were sent back to Vietnam on board HMAS Choules (Royal Australian Navy: Shane Cameron)
By political reporter...
APRRN STATEMENT: APRRN CONDEMNS AUSTRALIA’S RETURN OF 46 VIETNAMESE ASYLUM SEEKERS FOUND AT SEA
April 28, 2015
The Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN), a network of over 230 civil society organisations and individuals working in 26 countries, condemns...
Australia and Vietnam further cooperation to stamp out people smuggling
Monday, 12 December 2016
A new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Department of Immigration and Border Protection and Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security will...
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Retired US Ambassador Visits Vietnamese Asylum Seekers in Indonesian Detention
Retired US Ambassador Grover Joseph Rees recently visited the 18 Vietnamese asylum seekers in detention in Kuningan, South Jakarta.
The former US Ambassador to East...
Lụa and Loan, Two Asylum Seekers Rejected by Australia
Kathy Triệu
A Look Inside
Published July 19, 2017 in Episode 76
41-year-old Trần Thị Lụa is speaking to me from a detention center in Indonesia.
“It’s very...
Media Release: JRS deeply concerned over return of 46 Vietnamese asylum seekers
HMAS Choules intercepted and returned 46 Vietnamese asylum seekers who had been found in waters north of Australia.
21 April 2015
Jesuit Refugee Service Australia (JRS)...