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unusual facts about asylum seekers



Peter Andren

He was also a vocal critic of Australia's policy on asylum seekers, and the Iraq War.


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Baron Waqa

On April 23, 2004, Waqa and his colleagues Kieren Keke, David Adeang and Fabian Ribauw participated in protests at the Nauru International Airport in Yaren; these were meant to show displeasure regarding government policy against Afghan asylum-seekers in Australia and the Flotilla of Hope, as well as against the deadlock then encountered in Parliament.

Cantell Secondary School

In addition to a higher than average proportion of students from ethnic minority backgrounds there are a number of students who are refugees or asylum seekers.

Christina McKelvie

Locally she has campaigned to support the David Livingstone Centre, and against the detention of child asylum seekers at Dungavel.

Maeve Sherlock

Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock, Baroness Sherlock OBE (born 10 November 1960) is a Labour Party life peer who was the chief executive of the Refugee Council, a charity supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the UK, between August 2003 and October 2006.

National Disaster Management Organization

NADMO received support from other agencies such as the Ghana Refugee Board, the Catholic Secretariat, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UNICEF, UN Population Fund, and other NGOs for the provision of humanitarian services to potential asylum seekers.

Nauru detention centre

Initial plans were for asylum seekers to be housed in modern, air-conditioned housing which had been built for the games of the International Weightlifting Federation.

Norwegian People's Party

The party was founded by Oddbjørn Jonstad, the former chairman of the Oppegård chapter of the Progress Party, who was suspended from the party following his proposal to put refugees and asylum seekers in state-owned camps, and to deny children of refugees from attending Norwegian schools.

Pacific Islands Political Studies Association

Over three days many dimensions of security currently concerning the Pacific were explored including terrorism, coups, ‘failed states,’ asylum seekers and the ‘Pacific Solution’, the protection of the environment, drugs and organized crime.

Rabei Osman

He was released in 12 September 2000 and sent to a hostel for asylum seekers in Lebach, Saarland, Germany.

Ruben Kun

Under the Pacific Solution asylum policy, Australia has an arrangement with Nauru that allows asylum seekers arriving in Australia to be detained on the island.

Saharonim Prison

Together with the Ktzi'ot prison, Sadot prison and the Nachal Raviv tent camp they detain Sudanese and Eritrean asylum seekers who crossed the border from Egypt to Israel.

Tantowi Yahya

In September 2013, in an interview by ABC, he publicly declared Indonesian's opposition to Australia's government policy on asylum seekers, which involved towing back asylum boats in international water back to Indonesian territory and paying Indonesian villager for information about people smuggling, calling it 'illegal, offensive and an affront to democracy'.

The Kindness Offensive

Some of the recipients included four branches of the Salvation Army, The Women’s Asylum Seekers Together, and the Muswell Hill Churches Soup Kitchen.

Thomas Schütte

The convoys of refugees from the First Gulf War (1991), and the burning down of refugee shelters for asylum seekers in Germany, formed the contemporary political backdrop to these ceramic figures, which caused a stir at documenta.

Waking Up the Nation

As the first civilians, they visited the detainees in some of the most remote parts of the country, like the detention centres in Port Hedland, and Curtin, and managed to expose some of the human rights violations committed against the asylum seekers in the camps.

The documentary tells the story of a group of Australian human rights activists, who travel on an old bus, the Freedom Bus, to visit asylum seekers imprisoned in immigration detention centres across the country, and to educate Australian communities on their 12,000-kilometres-journey.