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Joint Statements

APPRN Statement on a new approach to regional cooperation on refugee protection

16 September 2011

The Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN) is deeply disappointed by the Australian government’s announcement that it intends to seek passage of legislation overturning the ruling by the High Court of Australia in the case of Plaintiff M70/2011 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. The High Court held that it is unlawful under Australia’s existing [...]

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APRRN Joint statement on the Australia – Malaysia refugee swap agreement

17 May 2011

The Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network is very concerned about the proposed  Australia-Malaysia bilateral agreement under which Australia plans to transfer 800 individuals seeking asylum to Malaysia in return for resettling an additional 4,000 refugees from Malaysia over the next 4 years. As civil society organisations working with refugees in the Asia Pacific region and [...]

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Statement of concern on the plight of new Rohingya arrivals in Thailand

2 February 2011

Thai version The Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network is deeply concerned about the plight of an estimated 226 Rohingya boat people, including an unknown number of children, reportedly detained by Thai authorities in the southern provinces of Thailand.  They were intercepted in three boats: one boat with 91 persons intercepted in Trang Province on 22 [...]

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Statement of concern on the detention of refugees and asylum seekers of Pakistani origin in Thailand

20 December 2010

We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned and shocked at the arrest and detention of 86 refugees and asylum seekers of Pakistani origin in Bangkok. These vulnerable people were arrested from their homes in a dawn raid and taken to the Bangkok Detention Centre. We have information that indicates that almost all the detainees have either [...]

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Joint statement on Australian asylum processing suspension: violations of Australia’s international human rights obligations that undermine civil society efforts to strengthen refugee protections throughout the Asia Pacific region

27 April 2010

We, the undersigned, condemn the Australian government’s decision to suspend its processing of all applications for asylum from individuals from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, for three and six months respectively. The Suspension Policy is predicated on a profound misreading of the current situations in Sri Lanka and in Afghanistan. It plainly violates Australia’s human rights [...]

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