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The demise of the Malaysian Solution

5 September 2011

By Dr Savitri Taylor Source: La Trobe University  On 25 July 2011, Australia and Malaysia entered into a legally non-binding Arrangement, which provided for the transfer to Malaysia of up to 800 people arriving irregularly in Australia by boat after the date of signing.  The Gillard government attempted to implement this arrangement by using the [...]

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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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Joint NGO Statement to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights on the Protection of Refugees in Southeast Asia

24 March 2010

We, the undersigned, appeal to the newly-established ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) to take into consideration the poor protection of the rights of refugees in this region as it meets on 28 March 2010 in Jakarta. We note with great interest that the AICHR has identified a study on migration as one of [...]

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Refugees nearing 150 days at sea

17 February 2010

254 Sri Lankan Tamil-speaking refugees have been trapped on a tiny boat in the port of Merak in Indonesia. It will be 150 days on march 10th. Currently No humanitarian agencies apart from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) are allowed to visit the boat. The IOM, which gets $12 million a year from the [...]

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The terrifying voyage of Burma’s boat people

24 November 2009

Here’s a formula for making a killing in times of crisis. Go to the south-eastern tip of Bangladesh, on the border with Burma, and buy an old fishing boat. It’ll cost 100,000 taka, or about £900. Then budget 450 pounds, for rice and drinking water, and maybe another £450 for bribes. Then head off and trawl for clients among the most destitute communities in Bangladesh – a country so densely populated country and so poor that for Britain to be on similar economic terms it would have to have a population of 200 million with an average income around four per cent of what a Briton’s is today.

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