UNICEF statement on Australia and Vietnam signing MOU to return Vietnamese asylum seekers
Statement attributable to Amy Lamoin, Head of Policy and Advocacy, UNICEF Australia
SYDNEY, 13 December 2016 - UNICEF Australia notes the announcement yesterday that a...
Asylum seekers returned to Vietnam by Australian Navy had claims assessed at sea, UNHCR...
PHOTO: HMAS Choules completed its mission to transfer the group back to Vietnam. (www.navy.gov.au)
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By South East Asia correspondent Samantha Hawley
Updated 21 Apr 2015, 9:29am
The...
Letter from Human Rights Law Centre in support of Vietnamese asylum seekers
17 April 2015
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights United Nations Office at Geneva
8-14 Avenue de la Paix
1211 Geneva 10, SWITZERLAND
By email: [email protected]
To: Special...
UN informed of Australia’s secretive return of Vietnamese asylum seekers
"Australia should never return a refugee to persecution": Daniel Webb of the Human Rights Law Centre. April 21, 2015
The Australian Government has secretly returned 46...
The New Wave of Vietnamese ‘Boatpeople’ Seeking Asylum in Australia
Policy & Politics | 23/04/2015 11:46:00 AM
Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce
PRESS RELEASE 23.4.15: The New Wave of Vietnamese ‘Boatpeople’
The latest figures available from the...
Suspected asylum seeker vessel heading for Dampier off WA’s North West coast
Updated 20 Jul 2015, 5:39pm
A suspected asylum seeker boat has been spotted off Dampier in Western Australia's North West region.
A Federal Government source has...
Australian Navy returns 46 asylum seekers to Vietnam after intercepting group en route to...
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton addresses the media
PHOTO: Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has refused to comment, citing 'operational matters'
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Vietnamese asylum seekers returned by plane in the dead of night: reports
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...
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...
Vietnamese ‘Boat People’ Attempt to Reach Australia a Second Time
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...