Australia returned 46 asylum seekers to Vietnam, says immigration minister
An Australian navy boat (left) shadowing a boat believed to be carrying asylum seekers in July 2012. Photograph: BASARNAS/AFP/Getty Images
Paul Farrell
Tuesday 5 May 2015...
Fate of Vietnamese Asylum Seeker Children Hangs in the Balance
A group of Vietnamese asylum seekers, including 12 children, have tried to reach Australia by boat for the second time, writes Shira Sebban, 16...
Australia-Vietnam 2016 Human Rights Dialogue: Civil Society Consultation
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Tony Abbott tight-lipped on suspected Vietnamese asylum seeker boat
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...
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...
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...
Asylum seekers arrive in WA’s north-west
Updated 20 Jul 2013, 6:52pm
Locals who watched 17 asylum seekers being transferred to the mainland at Dampier in WA's north-west on Friday night say...
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...
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...