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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

’Island of despair’: Australia intentionally torturing refugees on Nauru, says major Amnesty International report

The Australian government is responsible for the deliberate and systematic torture of refugees on Nauru and should be held accountable under international law, according to a major new report informed by unprecedented access to the secretive island.

▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/island-of-despair-australia-intentionally-torturing-refugees-on-nauru-says-m

Australia sent refugees to PNG for abortions knowing it was illegal, court hears

Despite abortion being illegal under Papua New Guinea’s criminal code, Australia has sent at least two refugee women for pregnancy terminations at Pacific International Hospital (PIH) in Port Moresby, it was revealed on Friday.

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Nauru rape victim’s health not ’exceptional’ enough to fly to Australia for abortion, court told

Senior border protection official says despite advice from five medical experts, he stood by his judgment that she could be treated in Papua New Guinea

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Papua New Guinea court rules detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island illegal

Supreme court orders PNG and Australian governments to immediately move people out of detention centre on Manus island

▻http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/apr/26/papua-new-guinea-court-rules-detention-asylum-seekers-manus-unconstitut
#externalisation

PNG’s Supreme Court rules detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal

Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court has ruled Australia’s detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal.

▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-26/png-court-rules-asylum-seeker-detention-manus-island-illegal/7360078

Papua New Guinea court finds Australia’s detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says about 900 men being held at the Manus Island detention centre will not be brought to Australia after Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court ruled their detention was illegal.

►http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/papua-new-guinea-court-finds-australias-detention-of-asylum-seekers-on-manus

Australie. A Manus, le paradis attendra

Cette petite île de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée héberge, depuis 2013, un camp australien de réfugiés, posant un défi de taille aux insulaires. Le 26 avril 2016, la Cour suprême du pays a déclaré le camp anticonstitutionnel et sommé Canberra de le démanteler. Ce reportage sur la vie en dehors des campements, publié en 2015, est écrit par un journaliste australien, un des rares à s’être rendu sur l’île.

▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/australie-manus-le-paradis-attendra

Réfugiés. Le camp de rétention australien de Manus doit fermer

La privation de liberté des demandeurs d’asile détenus dans un camp australien sur l’île de Manus, en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, est inconstitutionnelle, a décrété la Cour suprême de cet Etat le 26 avril. Le camp doit fermer.

▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/refugies-le-camp-de-retention-australien-de-manus-doit-fermer

Death in offshore detention: predictable and preventable

Asylum seeker Hamid Khazaei suddenly became ill last year from a leg infection which escalated to septicaemia. He needed rapid evacuation from Manus Island to receive appropriate specialist medical care. This was delayed by almost 30 hours, by which time he was gravely ill. He died a few days later.

▻https://theconversation.com/death-in-offshore-detention-predictable-and-preventable-58398

Why Australia is closing its refugee detention centre in Papua New Guinea

IN ITS short, on-off existence, the regional processing centre on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea has witnessed an extraordinary amount of unhappiness. Its inhabitants, who number around 900, exist in an isolated limbo. They fled a variety of poor and war-torn countries to find safety in Australia, trusting people-smugglers and their ramshackle operations to get them there. Most have never touched Australian land. Instead, they were intercepted by naval vessels and transported to Manus Island, which is funded by the Australian government. Under the terms of the deal that re-established the centre in 2012, those granted refugee status were due to be resettled in Papua New Guinea. So far, only a handful have been released into the community; and there have been reports that some of those have returned to the centre seeking shelter. On April 26th the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea ruled that the centre was unconstitutional and ordered its closure.

▻http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/04/economist-explains-20?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/why_australia_is_closing_its_refugee_detention_centre_in_papua_new_guinea

Australia must act to shut its offshore camps

That Papua New Guinea, a country with questionable human rights credentials, is publicly shaming Australia over its offshore detention of refugees and asylum seekers illustrates how far Canberra has deviated from moral and ethical norms on this issue.

▻http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4ad4db22-0df7-11e6-ad80-67655613c2d6.html#ixzz47SFkOJrX

UNHCR Calls for Immediate Movement of Refugees and Asylum-Seekers to Humane Conditions
▻http://www.unhcr.org/572862016.html

Papua New Guinea tells UN it accepts court decision on Manus Island illegality

Human rights council assessment meeting advised that arrangements are being made for the 905 men still under detention

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Australia’s indefinite detention of refugees illegal, UN rules

Government told it should compensate five people who were incarcerated without charge on secret security grounds

▻http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/may/18/australias-indefinite-detention-of-refugees-illegal-un-rules?CMP=share_

Le communiqué de l’ONU :
▻https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2016/05/17/CCPR-C-116-D-2233-2013-English-cln-auv_%281%29.pdf

PNG demands answers from Manus Island contractors #ISOS after Hamid Khazaei’s death

The PNG government will suspend new medical licences for International SOS staff working on Manus Island amid an investigation into the death of an asylum seeker.

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▻http://www.smh.com.au/national/png-demands-answers-from-manus-island-contractors-isos-after-hamid-khazaeis-

Le film est déjà disponible online sur YouTube (mais dans une langue que je ne connais pas... farsi ? Ourdou ?) :
سفر – نسخه فارسی فیلم (فیلم کامل)

آنها از نقاط مختلفی آمده بودند، آنها رویاها، آرزوها و ترسهای مختلفی داشتند اما مقصدشان مشترک بود و سفر آنها را در کنار هم قرار داده بود.

کارگردان فیلم سفر، محمد قربان کریمی است و این فیلم تولید شرکت “Put It Out There Pictures” می باشد.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB2-t8FJA5A

Wenn Flüchtlinge zur Abschreckung ertrinken

Australien will Flüchtlinge mit einem 4-Millionen-Dollar-Film von der Migration auf den Kontinent abhalten. Kritiker sprechen von Regierungspropaganda.

▻http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ausland/asien-und-ozeanien/pAustralien-will-mit-Film-Fluechtlinge-abschreckenp/story/25310053

Australie : tous les deux jours des demandeurs d’asile se mutilent ou tentent de se suicider

Un demandeur d’asile porte atteinte à son propre corps en moyenne tous les deux jours dans des centres au large de l’Australie, selon un rapport rendu public samedi et qui évoque des cas d’automutilation, de tentatives de pendaison, d’empoisonnement ou d’étouffement.

▻https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/965232/australie-tous-les-deux-jours-des-demandeurs-dasile-se-mutilent-ou-te

Australia’s harshest detention centre revealed

Melbourne’s Maribyrnong detention centre is the harshest in Australia, according to figures that show guards restrain and handcuff asylum seekers or deploy other force at a rate far outstripping other facilities.

In one incident in April last year, a detainee who was acting aggressively was restrained using a controversial arm lock, prompting him to yell: “F**k off, I am not in a prison.”

The Department of Immigration and Border Protection said some centres hold more detainees with criminal histories than others, requiring more frequent use of force. However, refugee advocates say this leaves vulnerable asylum seekers in those centres at even greater risk of harm.

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▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australias-harshest-detention-centre-revealed-20160121-gmapbd.html

#statistiques #chiffres #détention_administrative #visualisation #graphiques

Suicide attempts at UK immigration removal centres averaged one a day in 2015, official figures reveal

There was an 11 per cent increase in suicide attempts at detention centres in 2015 than the previous year

▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/suicide-attempts-at-uk-immigration-removal-centres-averaged-one-a-day
#UK #détention_administrative #rétention #Angleterre #suicide

Multiplication des tentatives de suicide dans les centres de réfugiés du Pacifique

Hodan, une Somalienne de 21 ans, rêvait d’Australie. Lundi 2 mai, elle a tenté de s’immoler par le feu dans le centre fermé de la minuscule île du Pacifique, Nauru, où elle est détenue avec des centaines d’autres boat people ayant tenté de gagner l’Australie. Elle se trouve dans « un état très grave » et a été transférée dans un hôpital en Australie pour y être soignée, selon le ministre de l’immigration australien, Peter Dutton. Des médias ont rapporté qu’elle avait déjà tenté de se suicider la semaine dernière.

▻http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2016/05/03/multiplication-des-tentatives-de-suicide-dans-les-centres-de-refugies-du-pac

Refugee on Nauru convicted, fined for attempting suicide

A refugee at Nauru has been convicted and fined $200 for attempted suicide in a move island authorities say is designed to “stamp out the practice”.

▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/refugee-on-nauru-convicted-fined-for-attempting-suicide-20160415-go72i2.html

Australia enlists Cambodia in drive to deter refugees

Gently wringing his hands, Iraqi teenager Emad Hashim Abid Farhan looks down as his eyes begin to well with tears.

▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-enlists-cambodia-in-drive-to-deter-refugees-20150417-1mcimc.html

Refugees arrive in Cambodia from Australian detention

First four refugees fly into Phnom Penh after Australia agrees to pay Cambodia $31m in controversial resettlement deal.

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Australia: Stop Transfers to Cambodia

Phnom Penh Has Low Capacity, Poor Record on Refugees, Asylum Seekers

▻https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/styles/node_embed/public/multimedia_images_2015/2015-7-cambodia-australia-asia-refugees.jpg?itok=gD-6Yeqc

▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/04/29/australia-stop-transfers-cambodia

C’est une blague ou c’est du #Gorafi_encore_plagié ?

Les Douanes australiennes ne vont quand même pas affréter un navire d’assistance aux plate-formes pétrolières pour expulser des immigrants illégaux ? D’une part, l’Ocean Protector est sous pavillon bahaméen, et d’autre part vu le tarif, ça va faire cher du prix de journée pour déposer des Algeco sur la plate-forme hélico…

Peut-être s’agit-il de son sister ship l’Ocean Shield, qui est lui sous pavillon australien et qui était (est toujours ?) utilisé pour la recherche du MH370. D’après MarineTraffic, il fait route actuellement vers Christmas, de qui semblerait compatible avec la déportation d’immigrants.

Mais c’est quand même dingue !

Remarque, l’article se termine par une évaluation du coup de la manip’.

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#migrations #asile #australie #déterritorialisation

▻http://seenthis.net/messages/302790