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No Advantage: Inside Australia’s Offshore Processing Centres
ABC News Australia [April, 2013] | Next on Four Corners, we go inside Australia’s offshore refugee processing centres on Nauru and Manus Island. What you see will shock you. Protests, evidence…
Fleeing Pakistan Violence, Hazaras Brave Uncertain Journey
NYTimes: Declan Walsh [April 28, 2013] | KARACHI, Pakistan — Stranded in a dingy hotel in the heart of this port city, waiting for the smuggler’s call, Hussain felt at…
My Dark Times: A Survivor’s Story
NYTimes – April 28, 2103 | I did not have any intention to go abroad, but it was what I had to do. The circumstances were deteriorating day by day.…
Five dead after asylum boat sinks off the coast of Indonesia
Source: Herald Sun, Australia A GROUP of 14 asylum seekers has been rescued by fishermen in Indonesia after their boat sank in the Sunda Strait on its way to Australia,…
Hazaras flee ‘systematic genocide’ in Pakistan
Source: Brisbane Times Despite the risks of the long, slow boat trip to Australia – made starkly evident by the Christmas Island disaster this week when two asylum seekers drowned…
Plight of the Hazara fails to move stone hearts in Canberra
Source: The Australian IN the world of refugees there are many deserving causes, but the Hazaras of Afghanistan and western Pakistan make up a large proportion of asylum-seekers boarding leaky…
Transfers continue to Nauru
Source: Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Australian Govt. The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) today announced the successful transfer of 20 irregular maritime arrivals to Nauru, where they will…
Imminent deportation poses grave risk for Hazaras’ safety
Source: Amnesty International, Australia Amnesty International has grave concerns with the Government’s recent move to start returning Hazara asylum seekers to Afghanistan and Pakistan. “The security situation in Afghanistan is…
Batoor’s journey
Source: SBS Dateline, Australia In a television first on Dateline, an asylum seeker films his own desperate attempt to reachAustralia by boat. Afghan Hazara Batoor records a perilous journey as a boat…
Asylum-seekers boat en-route to Australia capsizes off coast of Trenggalek, East Java, Indonesia
The boat was carrying between 250 to 380 passengers – 4 times the capacity – from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran. Over 200 feared drowned; 70 passengers from Quetta, 18 survived,…