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In return for taking a limited number of heavily-vetted asylum seekers, the Obama administration will deport to #Australia some Central American refugees currently languishing in #camps in #Costa_Rica, having been denied entry to the US. On both sides of the Pacific, some of the world’s most vulnerable people will be denied the basic right to seek protection, while many will face permanent separation from their families.

Far from alleviating the horrors produced by Australia’s “offshore” detention regime, the new deal will see hundreds of families split up forever, with many detainees, especially single men, unable to reunite with their spouses and children in Australia.

#accord #deal #USA

Refugees on #Nauru and #Manus_Island to be resettled in US – as it happened
▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2016/nov/13/australia-nauru-manus-island-refugee-detainee-announcement-live?CMP=sha

Australie : des réfugiés pourront s’installer aux Etats-Unis

Des réfugiés relégués par l’Australie dans des camps controversés sur des îles du Pacifique seront réinstallés aux Etats-Unis aux termes d’un « accord exceptionnel » avec ce pays, a annoncé dimanche Canberra, en soulignant que sa politique d’intransigeance envers les migrants restait inchangée.

▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/depeche/australie-des-refugies-pourront-sinstaller-aux-etats-unis.afp

Les Etats-Unis vont accueillir les réfugiés des centres de rétention australiens

Cela fait quatre ans qu’ils croupissent dans des centres de rétention. Les migrants enfermés par l’Australie sur des îles du Pacifique sortent de l’impasse. Canberra n’en veut toujours pas, mais les Etats-Unis vont en accueillir pour offrir à ces personnes une deuxième chance. Combien ? Pas encore de chiffre officiel. Mais les deux pays ont annoncé un accord historique ce dimanche 13 novembre 2016. A ce jour, 1 616 personnes retenues sur Nauru et Manus, sur environ 2 000 au total, ont obtenu le statut de réfugié.

▻http://www.rfi.fr/ameriques/20161113-etats-unis-refugies-migrants-australie-retention-papouasie-accord?ns_mc

Australia’s refugee deal may be scuppered by Trump, US expert warns

Immigration expert Niels Frenzen says Trump will want something in return if he is to honour the deal to take refugees from Nauru and Manus Island

▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/15/trump-tear-up-australia-refugee-deal-us-expert-warns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_O

UNHCR to endorse Australia-United States relocations as “offshore processing” arrangements fail refugees

The approach taken by Australia in transferring refugees and asylum-seekers to open-ended detention in Papua New Guinea and Nauru has caused immense harm to vulnerable people who have sought asylum since 2013. In this context, UNHCR welcomes the announcement today that refugees currently held in Nauru and Papua New Guinea will be relocated under a bilateral arrangement between Australia and the United States.

▻http://www.unhcr.org/58290a5b4.html

Refugees on Nauru and Manus Island to be resettled in US – as it happened

Malcolm Turnbull announces one-off agreement for refugees on Manus Island and Nauru to be resettled in US under auspices of the UNHCR

▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2016/nov/13/australia-nauru-manus-island-refugee-detainee-announcement-live?platfor

Sudanese refugee dies in Brisbane hospital after medivac from Manus

A 27-year-old Sudanese refugee held on Manus Island has died following “a fall and seizure” inside the Australian-run detention centre.

It is understood the man, who had reportedly been unwell for several months, collapsed and suffered head injuries inside the detention centre on Friday. He was then evacuated to Royal Brisbane and Women’s hospital, where he died on Saturday.

▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/24/sudanese-refugee-dies-in-brisbane-hospital-after-medivac-from-manus?CMP

Refugee pleaded with doctors on Manus Island for help before his death

Detainees’ letter claims medical staff ignored months of escalating complaints before #Faysal_Ishak_Ahmed collapsed

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Manus : les migrants se révoltent

Samedi soir, des migrants se sont révoltés au centre de rétention de Manus, en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée pour protester contre la mort d’un jeune réfugié.

▻http://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/nouvellecaledonie/manus-migrants-se-revoltent-428351.html

#externalisation #Australie #révolte

’Bashed’ asylum seekers on Manus Island ’deserved what they got’: PNG minister

Manus Island MP Ronny Knight has declared that two asylum seekers who say they were bashed by police and PNG immigration officials on New Year’s Eve “deserved what they got”.

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Manus Island refugees riot over food

60 refugees and guards fought a running battle yesterday at Australia’s refugee detention centre on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.

▻http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/328494/manus-island-refugees-riot-over-food
#alimentation

Photos show bullets fired into Manus Island detention accommodation, not just air: Amnesty

Human rights group Amnesty International has found the Australian Government downplayed the danger asylum seekers on Manus Island faced when the detention centre was attacked by soldiers from the Papua New Guinea Defence Force.

▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-15/federal-government-downplayed-asylum-seeker-danger-amnesty-says/8525350

Australia to close Manus Island asylum centre

Australia has agreed to close a controversial asylum seeker detention centre in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-37104363
#fermeture #enfin_une_bonne_nouvelle

Australia confirms Manus Island immigration detention centre will close

Immigration minister Peter Dutton offers no details on plans for the 854 detainees, but says none will be resettled in Australia

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Keep turn-backs and close the camps: leading human rights thinkers call for closure of Manus and Nauru

The release of the Nauru files—the 2,000 leaked incident reports, which include allegations of violence, sexual assault, self harm and degrading living conditions on Nauru—have focussed attention once again on Australia’s regime of offshore processing.

▻http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/keep-turn-backs-and-close-the-camps:-leading/7734324

Will Australia Really Close the Manus Island Detention Center?

Yesterday, the governments of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Australia announced the closure of the Manus Island detention center. After more than three years of keeping more than 800 asylum seeker and refugee men in limbo, have the governments caved to domestic and international pressure to close the camps?

▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/08/18/will-australia-really-close-manus-island-detention-center

Manus Island centre set to close – but where to for the detainees?

The Manus Island Regional Processing Centre – one of the two key sites of Australia’s offshore immigration detention regime – will close. A date is not set, nor any arrangement confirmed for resettling the 854 men still detained there.

▻https://theconversation.com/manus-island-centre-set-to-close-but-where-to-for-the-detainees-640

Asylum seekers: Turnbull government to hand cash bonuses of $20K for seekers to give up resettlement

AUSTRALIA will offer asylum seekers shipped to Papua New Guinea secret cash bonuses of over $20,000 to go home and give up hope of resettlement.

▻http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/asylum-seekers-turnbull-government-to-hand-cash-bonuses-of-20k-for-seekers-to-give-up-resettlement/news-story/d4ff63f11c376cbef629b003604a6da1

Australia confirms Manus Island immigration detention centre will close

Immigration minister Peter Dutton offers no details on plans for the 854 detainees, but says none will be resettled in Australia

▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/17/manus-island-detention-centre-to-close-australia-and-papua-new-guinea-a

The judge who unmade Manus Island on why offshore detention has no future

Papua New Guinea’s Justice #Terence_Higgins says Australia should have known the detention centre would not survive constitutional challenge

▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/24/the-judge-who-unmade-manus-island-on-why-offshore-detention-has-no-futu

Manus Island detention centre to close by year’s end, inquest told

Senior Australian government bureaucrat tells Hamid Kehazaei inquest Papua New Guinean government wants centre closed before 2018

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To Close Camps, Australia Must Not Send Asylum Seekers Back to Danger

Following reports of forced deportations from Manus Island, Jane McAdam, director of UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, explains why asylum seekers at the Australian-run offshore detention center have not had a fair chance of gaining refugee status.

▻https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/02/17/to-close-camps-australia-must-not-send-asylum-seekers-back-to-danger