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Senegal cracks down on Europe refugee boats: Will others follow?

The West African nation’s navy is stopping refugee boats at record rates. But who does that help — other than Europe?

Al Jazeera · Oct 5, 2023

Why the government's plan to overhaul the asylum system is a smart use of resources – and might just work

Immigration Minister Andrew Giles today announced significant changes aimed at restoring the integrity of Australia’s refugee protection system.

The Conversation · Oct 5, 2023

More than 50,000 refugees ‘could be homeless this winter’ as Home Office speeds up evictions

Some refugees get as little as seven days to find alternative accommodation before they are evicted from hotels

The Independent UK · Oct 5, 2023

Visa system to be target of Labor crackdown after review uncovers ‘grotesque abuses’

Former Victorian police chief commissioner’s report revealed sexual exploitation, human trafficking and organised crime

The Guardian - AU · Oct 4, 2023

Australia’s system of indefinite immigration detention to face high court challenge

Lawyers for stateless Rohingya refugee seek to overturn 20-year-old precedent that allows those who can’t be deported to be kept in detention

The Guardian - AU · Oct 3, 2023

Refugees who died off Italy 10 years ago remembered as new crisis flares

A decade after two tragic shipwrecks that shook Europe, Lampedusa is at the centre of a humanitarian crisis again.

Al Jazeera · Oct 3, 2023

Charities warn of refugee homelessness crisis in England this winter

People granted right to remain could end up sleeping rough in makeshift camps after accelerated Home Office evictions

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2023

‘It’s a ghost town’: UN arrives in Nagorno-Karabakh to find ethnic Armenians have fled

‘What is left for the UN to monitor?’ asks one refugee who crossed the border to escape

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2023

‘Fight for every other refugee’: Priya Nadesalingam on what Australia can learn from Biloela

In her first memoir, Nadesalingam revisited painful memories to tell her family’s story. Now happily settled in Biloela, she’s urging the country to keep fighting

The Guardian - AU · Oct 2, 2023

Jeremy Hunt distances himself from Suella Braverman after asylum speech backlash

Suella Braverman called for an overhaul of the UN Refugee Convention, arguing it had become far too generous to migrants

The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2023