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Mais puisqu’on t’a dit qu’il fallait rester avec le groupe et ne surtout pas poser de questions directement aux types d’Al Qaeda qu’on soigne en Israël…

Journalist Sharri Markson detained on Israeli visit
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A prominent Australian journalist was detained by Israeli security officials in tense scenes last week during a visit to a hospital treating victims of the Syrian civil war.

Sharri Markson, a senior writer at The Australian, was detained for questioning by security officials at the Ziv Medical Centre in northern Israel on Thursday.

Markson was travelling with other Australian journalists on a week-long study tour organised by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies and the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council.

[…]

Over 500 Syrians – including wounded fighters battling the Assad regime – have been treated at the Ziv Medical Centre in Safed, near the Syrian border.

In a briefing before the tour began, hospital staff told the journalists that the patients could be at risk upon their return to Syria if it became known they had sought treatment in Israel. The hospital uses elaborate methods to secretly transfer the patients in and out of Syria.

C’est admirable, non, cette façon de cet hôpital de développer des « méthodes élaborées pour transférer secrètement des patients depuis et vers la Syrie ».

UN human rights review: Countries line up to criticise Australia for its treatment of asylum seekers

Geneva: Australia has copped a barrage of criticism at a United Nations human rights forum over its treatment of asylum seekers on the high seas and in offshore detention centres.

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▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/un-human-rights-review-countries-line-up-to-criticise-australia-for-its-trea?

#asile #migrations #réfugiés #détention_administrative #rétention #Australie

Abrupt changes in food chains predicted as Southern Ocean acidifies fast: study
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Below a certain pH level, shells of such creatures become more brittle, with implications for fisheries that feed off them since pteropods appear unable to evolve fast enough to cope with the rapidly changing conditions.

“For pteropods it may be very difficult because they can’t run around without a shell,” Professor Timmermann said. “It’s not they dissolve immediately but there’s a much higher energy requirement for them to form the shells.”

Given the sheer scale of the marine creatures involved, “take away this biomass, [and] you have avalanche effects for the rest of the food web”, he said.

#effet_de_serre #co2 #acidification #océan #coquille #chaine_alimentaire

Sexual abuse, rape threats alleged by Nauru asylum seekers

Asylum seekers have made allegations of sexual abuse of women and children and threats of rape by guards working in the detention centre on Nauru.

▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/sexual-abuse-rape-threats-alleged-by-nauru-asylum-seekers-20140929-10nlun.ht
#viol #asile #migrations #réfugiés #Nauru #violences

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How Zhou Qunfei became the world’s richest self-made woman
▻http://www.smh.com.au/business/how-zhou-qunfei-became-the-worlds-richest-selfmade-woman-20150731-giofij.htm

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No country has more self-made female billionaires than China. The Communist party, under Mao Zedong, promoted gender equality, allowing women to flourish after capitalism started to take hold, says Huang Yasheng, an expert in China’s entrepreneurial class and a professor of international management at MIT. In a country with few established players, entrepreneurs like Ms Zhou were able to quickly make their mark when they entered business in the 1990s as China’s economic engine was revving up.

#Chine #femmes

Child in detention for 1113 days, only 25 Rohingya refugees accepted

A child has been held in immigration detention for at least 1113 days and the Abbott government has accepted just 25 #Rohingya refugees despite thousands fleeing persecution, official figures show, raising fresh criticism of Australia’s hardline asylum-seeker stance.

▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/child-in-detention-for-1113-days-only-25-rohingya-refugees-accepted-20150724
#enfance #enfants #détention_administrative #réfugiés #asile #migration #Australie #Nauru

Child asylum seeker alleges rape in shower and 253 Nauru detainees attempt self-harm, Senate inquiry hears

A child asylum seeker at Nauru was allegedly raped by another detainee in the shower, a staff member violently dragged a child from a bus and 253 detainees have attempted self-harm, a Senate inquiry has heard, raising serious concerns over Australia’s offshore processing regime.

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▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/child-asylum-seeker-alleges-rape-in-shower-and-253-nauru-detainees-attempt-s
#viol #violence #asile #migration #réfugiés #Australie #Nauru #suicide

WikiLeaks ’Saudi Cables’ reveal secret Saudi government influence in Australia
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The leaked Saudi government documents include extensive correspondence between the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Kingdom’s embassy in Canberra that reveals sustained Saudi efforts to influence political and religious opinion within Australia’s Arabic and Islamic communities.

The documents include instructions from the Saudi government to its embassy relating to the payment of large subsidies from the Saudi Ministry of Culture and Information to prominent Arabic newspapers and media organisations in Australia, with reference made to cheques to the value of $10,000 and $40,000.

The Saudi embassy is also revealed to pay close attention to the political and religious beliefs of Saudi university students studying in Australia with reports sent to the Mabahith, the General Investigation Directorate of the Saudi Ministry of Interior, the Kingdom’s brutal secret police that deals with domestic security and counter-intelligence. The directorate is also revealed to make recommendations in relation to Saudi government funding for building mosques and supporting Islamic community activities in Australia.

The documents show the Sunni kingdom’s strong concern about efforts by Shiite Islamic leaders to engage with the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils and the kingdom’s funding of visits to Australia by Sunni Islamic clerics to counter Shiite influence.

#saudileaks

Ombudsman slams government for long detention rates

Asylum seekers, including mothers and their children, are spending nearly five years in Australian immigration detention facilities, as the time in detention has soared to one of the longest rates in the world.

The Commonwealth and Immigration Ombudsman has slammed the government for its prolonged detention of asylum seekers after finding children are being born, and remain, in detention facilities waiting for their families’ claims of protection to be processed or for their security assessments to be cleared.

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Rohingya Muslim boat people land in Indonesia, thousands more stuck at sea

Bangkok: Thousands of long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar are believed to be stuck at sea on people-smuggler boats, unable to land because of a crackdown on illegal trafficking networks in Thailand and Malaysia, officials and refugee activists say.

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Delay on removal of Nauru refugees to Cambodia

The first transfer of refugees from Nauru to Cambodia has been held up while Australian Immigration officials talk to families detained on the Pacific island who ­expressed interest in moving to the Asian kingdom.

▻http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/delay-on-removal-of-nauru-refugees-to-cambodia/story-fn9hm1gu-1227310985486
#externalisation #asile #réfugiés #migration #Nauru #Cambodge #Australie

Sous pression, les banques françaises renoncent au #charbon australien
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Une victoire pour le climat et la Grande barrière de corail. De manière inédite, les trois plus grandes banques françaises viennent de s’engager sans ambiguité à ne pas investir dans le développement des vastes réserves de charbon du Bassin de Galilée, au Nord-ouest de l’Australie. Une démarche qui n’aurait pas été possible sans la campagne acharnée menée par les militants écologistes et altermondialistes, lesquels avaient déjà obtenu l’année dernière le retrait de la #Société_générale du projet emblématique (...)

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Gladstone LNG, l’autre mégaprojet australien d’une entreprise française qui menace (entre autres) la Grande barrière de corail
►http://multinationales.org/Gladstone-LNG-l-autre-megaprojet-australien-d-une-entreprise-franca

Les projets de développement à grande échelle du charbon dans le Nord-ouest de l’Australie ont largement attiré l’attention de l’opinion internationale, en raison des risques qu’ils font peser sur le climat et la Grande barrière de corail. En France, la Société générale a été particulièrement montrée du doigt pour son implication dans le projet Alpha Coal. Mais un autre grand projet de développement d’hydrocarbures porté par une entreprise française – #Total cette fois –, à quelques centaines de kilomètres au (...)

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#MH17 response : data on flight risks over conflict zones to be shared
▻http://www.smh.com.au/world/mh17-response-data-on-flight-risks-over-conflict-zones-to-be-shared-20150204

The International Civil Aviation Organisation will collect all data on flight risks over conflict zones and disseminate the information to airlines.
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At a meeting in Montreal of the aviation organisation’s 191 member states and aviation leaders on Tuesday, experts proposed creating a system to store all risk information.

Though the repository would contain much of the data that is currently available to carriers, this is often fragmented. The proposed system would include information from an array of sources, such as from nations’ intelligence services.
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However Russia clashed with Europe and the US, with a a senior Russian official telling the gathering that a centralised information-sharing system posed legal risks that could only be addressed by a full meeting of all 191 member states in 2016.

Russia said monthly notices to pilots, known as Notices to Airmen or NOTAM, were sufficient to warn carriers of risks.

“I think it would reflect on us very badly .... if we did not see these ideas through to delivery,” Patricia Hayes, Britain’s top aviation official, told an ICAO safety conference.

Speaking for the European Union, the Netherlands, which lost 196 citizens on MH17, said there was no need to delay setting up an information-sharing prototype.

ICAO’s chairman said most members supported the scheme, but a final decision is not expected until later this year.

Earlier on Tuesday, aviation leaders rallied behind a tight deadline to improve the tracking of passenger planes in a push to prevent a recurrence of the still unsolved disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight #MH370.

Britain, China and the United States backed ICAO proposals for further tracking guidelines that would apply from November 2016, an accelerated timetable in the often laborious process of aviation regulation.

Aircraft would have to send their position at least every 15 minutes, or more often in case of emergency, but it would be up to each state to decide how and when to implement this.

Malaysia said it was “unacceptable” that an aircraft or its recorders could be lost, decades after satellites were invented.

Apparemment, pour les deux propositions, les décisions seront prises lors de l’assemblée générale de l’#OACI.

Asylum seekers legally detained on Customs vessel, High Court rules

The Australian government acted legally when it detained 157 Tamil asylum seekers on the high seas for a month last year, the High Court has ruled.

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Montée du niveau des océans: la #Floride en première ligne
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Le maire de Miami-Beach, Philip Levine, a quant à lui raconté comment, lors d’inondations, les habitants sont forcés de traverser les rues avec de l’eau jusqu’aux genoux pour rentrer chez eux.

Warming world’s rising seas wash away some of South Florida’s glitz
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What was not so widely reported was that South Beach stank of shit. There is no nice way to put it. The place smelled of human waste. There had been a brief, heavy downpour but the water could not escape, so the sewers backed up and filled the roads. The traffic slowed to walking pace or seized entirely, and the models tottering between the restaurants and hotels and clubs had to pick wide arcs on the pavements to avoid the nasty pools swelling from the gutters.

Four-year budget of $20 million spent in one year to stop the boats
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The customs campaigns, shown in a number of developing countries included By boat, no visa; New Rules; Don’t throw your money into water; and No way. You will not make Australia home.

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#Areva menace de poursuivre l’Australie, qui l’empêche d’ouvrir une mine dans un parc national
▻http://multinationales.org/Areva-menace-de-poursuivre-l

Selon la presse australienne, le géant du nucléaire Areva - une entreprise propriété de l’État français - s’apprêterait à poursuivre en justice l’Australie. Motif ? Le groupe français souhaitait ouvrir une mine d’uranium dans le périmètre du Parc national de Kakadu, à l’extrémité Nord du pays. Après bien des controverses et des tergiversations, le Sénat australien a décidé en début d’année de réintégrer le gisement - acquis par Areva en 1995 - dans le Parc national, empêchant de fait toute exploitation minière. (...)

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Terror laws clear Senate, enabling entire Australian web to be monitored and whistleblowers to be jailed
▻http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/terror-laws-clear-senate-enabling-entire-australian-web-to-be-monitored-and- #whistleblowing #terrorisme #répression #Australie

New UN human rights chief attacks Australia over asylum seeker rights ’violations’

Australia has been accused of a “chain of human rights violations” in its treatment of asylum seekers by the incoming United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein.

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▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/new-un-human-rights-chief-attacks-australia-over-asylum-seeker-rights-violat

#Australie #réfugiés #asile #migration #droits_des_migrants #droits_des_réfugiés #droits_humains