Australia's indefinite detention policy under scrutiny
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| Mon 31 Oct, 2011. |
Australia's policy of indefinite mandatory detention of asylum-seekers
is under renewed scrutiny after the recent suicide of a Sri Lankan
refugee.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Give me a home, but not in a Temporary Relocation Area
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| Fri 30 Apr, 2010. |
Blikkiesdorp - meaning "tin-can town" in Afrikaans - has become a source of controversy in Cape Town, South Africa's most visited city and the host of several important matches in the much-anticipated 2010 Soccer World Cup. Read more...
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GHANA: Police crackdown on migrant Fulani herdsmen
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| Thu 29 Apr, 2010. |
Security officials in Ghana are cracking down on migrant Fulani herdsmen, accusing them of rape, vandalism, destruction of farms and armed robbery, but conflict resolution specialists say the herdsmen are being manipulated and the government must abide by regional right-of-passage laws. Read more...
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MALI: Oxfam raises alert on funding shortfall
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| Wed 21 Apr, 2010. |
The government and some NGOs say they are short of funding to adequately scale up an emergency response to the needs of 629,000 people who face food insecurity in parts of western, northern and northeastern Mali. Read more...
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BURKINA FASO: Cross-border land conflict risks
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| Wed 21 Apr, 2010. |
Conflicts in Burkina Faso between herders and farmers threaten to spill into neighbouring countries as herders seek grazing pastures, according to the government. Read more...
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SENEGAL: Koranic students kept in "slave-like" conditions - HRW
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| Thu 15 Apr, 2010. |
Hundreds of religious leaders running Koranic schools in Senegal are keeping their students in “slave-like” conditions, forcing them into exploitative labour through begging on the streets and depriving them of food or medicines, says US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a new report. Read more...
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KENYA: Illegal refugees miss out on HIV services
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| Mon 12 Apr, 2010. |
Salma* is HIV-positive and knows she needs life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs, but visiting a doctor could expose her illegal refugee status in Kenya and risk her being sent to a refugee camp, or worse, back to Somalia. Read more...
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SOUTH AFRICA: Eviction looms for Blue Waters camp residents
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| Thu 08 Apr, 2010. |
The High Court in Western Cape Province, South Africa, set 6 April as the deadline for evicting the last remaining foreigners from the Blue Waters safety camp, set up outside Cape Town after xenophobic attacks drove them from their homes in May 2008, but police have yet to carry out the eviction order. Read more...
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