Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Media Release: JRS deeply concerned over return of 46 Vietnamese asylum seekers

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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)...

Amnesty International Public Statement

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VIET NAM: IMPRISONMENT OF ASYLUM SEEKER FORCIBLY RETURNED BY AUSTRALIA WOULD BE UNLAWFUL AND COULD BE DISASTROUS FOR HER FOUR YOUNG CHILDREN 11 August 2016,...

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

UNICEF statement on Australia and Vietnam signing MOU to return Vietnamese asylum seekers

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Statement attributable to Amy Lamoin, Head of Policy and Advocacy, UNICEF Australia SYDNEY, 13 December 2016 - UNICEF Australia notes the announcement yesterday that a...

Tony Abbott tight-lipped on suspected Vietnamese asylum seeker boat

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Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Photo: Andrew Meares Nicole Hasham July 21 2015 Prime Minister Tony Abbott is refusing to say how a suspected boat of Vietnamese asylum...

Vietnamese ‘Boat People’ Attempt to Reach Australia a Second Time

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2017-02-08 Three Vietnamese families returned by Australian authorities last year after they tried to illegally migrate there have fled Vietnam a second time by boat...

Asylum seekers returned to Vietnam by Australian Navy had claims assessed at sea, UNHCR...

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PHOTO: HMAS Choules completed its mission to transfer the group back to Vietnam. (www.navy.gov.au) AM By South East Asia correspondent Samantha Hawley Updated 21 Apr 2015, 9:29am The...

Suspected asylum seeker boat ‘unlikely to dock’ after interception, WA water police say

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PHOTO: The suspected asylum seeker boat near a cargo ship off Dampier on Monday (ABC TV) By Charlotte Hamlyn Updated 21 Jul 2015, 1:30pm Police assisting in...

Vietnamese asylum seekers returned by plane in the dead of night: reports

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Prime Minister Tony Abbott refused to comment on reports the Vietnamese asylum seekers had been returned, saying it wasn't his government's job to "run...