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...
Turned back by Australia, Vietnamese recognised as refugees in Indonesia
JUNE 11 2017
Shira Sebban
Ever since they were forcibly returned by Australia to Vietnam two years ago, mother-of-four Tran Thi Thanh Loan and mother-of-three Tran...
We’re a Disparate Group of Australians Doing the Work Our Government Won’t
When I heard that a woman who attempted to seek asylum in Australia but had her boat returned to Vietnam was about to be...
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: urgent-action@ohchr.org
To: Special...
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...
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...
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
Asylum seekers who came on boats to Australia jailed in Vietnam, advocacy group says
PHOTO: The asylum seeker boat from Vietnam was detected at the beginning of June. (Supplied)
PM By Peta Donald
Posted 14 Nov 2016, 7:03pm
STORY: Dutton, Turnbull...
Suspected asylum seeker boat ‘unlikely to dock’ after interception, WA water police say
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...
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...