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Acute child malnutrition has doubled in Afghanistan since 2012 - World Socialist Web Site

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Acute child malnutrition has doubled in Afghanistan since 2012
By Mark Church
7 January 2014

A recent New York Times report on child malnutrition in Afghanistan further exposes the ongoing social catastrophe produced by the US-led invasion of the country in 2001. According to the United Nations, chronic or long-term children malnutrition cases have increased by 50 percent in the past year.

#afghanistan #enfance

Australia: 13 dead in two more refugee boat disasters - World Socialist Web Site

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Australia: 13 dead in two more refugee boat disasters
By Mark Church and Mike Head
17 July 2013

Two more asylum seeker boats have sunk trying to reach Australia in the past five days, killing at least 13 people. The sinkings underscore the mounting human toll of the Labor government’s escalating measures to stop refugees seeking to exercise their democratic and legal right to flee persecution and claim asylum.

Last night, a search for survivors was called off within hours after a boat carrying about 150 people capsized earlier in the evening, killing at least four passengers. At the time it sank, two Australian Navy ships were escorting it to the government’s detention camp on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.

#réfugiés #asile #australie #naufrage #mourir_en_mer

At least 55 die in another Australian refugee boat disaster - World Socialist Web Site

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At least 55 die in another Australian refugee boat disaster
By Mark Church
11 June 2013

An estimated 55 people, thought to include women and children, are dead after another boat carrying asylum seekers sank last week in the Indian Ocean near Christmas Island, an Australian outpost. No information has been released about the nationalities of those who perished.

#migrations #asile #mourir_en_mer #australie

Australian warship to join US fleet off Korean peninsula - World Socialist Web Site

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Australian warship to join US fleet off Korean peninsula
By Mark Church and James Cogan

3 May 2013

The Australian guided-missile frigate HMAS Sydney has been dispatched to join the American Seventh Fleet in Japan. For three months it will be “embedded” with the naval battle group escorting the aircraft carrier USS George Washington. The warship will take part in exercises and operations near the tense Korean Peninsula and the Senkaku Islands, which are the subject of a bitter territorial dispute between China and Japan.

#géostratégie #états-unis #pacifique #australie

Australia: Latest refugee boat disaster leaves 58 dead - World Socialist Web Site

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Australia: Latest refugee boat disaster leaves 58 dead
By Mark Church
23 April 2013

An estimated 58 refugees from Afghanistan and Pakistan have died in another asylum seeker boat tragedy in the waters between Australia and Indonesia. It is believed that the boat was carrying 72 men and young boys, and that only 14 survived after their boat sank in heavy seas. No one was rescued for more than 24 hours.

#migrations #asile #australie #indonésie #morts-en-mer

UN report details brutal conditions in Australian government’s Pacific refugee camps - World Socialist Web Site

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UN report details brutal conditions in Australian government’s Pacific refugee camps
By Mark Church
7 February 2013

The United Nations Human Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released a report Monday detailing the appalling conditions endured by asylum seekers who are incarcerated by the Australian government on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.

The contents of the UN report are a further indictment of the brutal and illegal policies enacted by the Labor government. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has revived and extended the “Pacific Solution” refugee regime of former Prime Minister John Howard, deporting asylum seekers who attempt to arrive in Australia by sea and indefinitely imprisoning them on Nauru and Papua New Guinea.

#migrations #réfugiés #asile #australie #brutalités #ils-recommencent

UN report details brutal conditions in Australian government’s Pacific refugee camps - World Socialist Web Site

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UN report details brutal conditions in Australian government’s Pacific refugee camps
By Mark Church
7 February 2013

The United Nations Human Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released a report Monday detailing the appalling conditions endured by asylum seekers who are incarcerated by the Australian government on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.

The contents of the UN report are a further indictment of the brutal and illegal policies enacted by the Labor government. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has revived and extended the “Pacific Solution” refugee regime of former Prime Minister John Howard, deporting asylum seekers who attempt to arrive in Australia by sea and indefinitely imprisoning them on Nauru and Papua New Guinea.

#migrations #refugiés #asile #australie

Latest Australian refugee disaster worsened by slow response

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By Mark Church
31 August 2012

Another boat carrying refugees to Australia has sunk after sailing from Indonesia. Reports indicate that only 54 people have survived, after being stranded in the water for almost 24 hours before help arrived. The boat was reported to have had 150 passengers from Afghanistan.

An unidentified passenger twice contacted the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) Rescue Coordination Centre early Wednesday morning, at 4.20 a.m. and 5.05 a.m. AEST, reporting the vessel was in distress. AMSA said the boat was eight nautical miles south-west of Java. Later, it amended that report to correctly estimate that the vessel would have drifted to a location about 50 nautical miles west of Java.

#migrations #réfugiés #australie #sauvetage-en-mer #naugrage