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Global-Migrate accused of promoting access to travel document without the government’s authority, although advertisements ‘not unlawful in themselves’An international migration firm is being investigated for allegedly promoting access to the Vanuatu’s passports without the government’s authority, in the latest controversy to hit the country’s “citizenship-for-sale” program. Vanuatu’s citizenship commissioner, Ronald Warsal, has placed Global-Migrate under investigation after access to the scheme was promoted by...

Despite being granted refugee status after spending time in Nauru, Betelhem Zeleke remains on a bridging visaSeven years of Australia’s offshore detention program – a timelineLives in limbo: more than 1,500 asylum seekers still face uncertain futureBetelhem Zeleke still doesn’t know why she was released from Brisbane immigration transit accommodation on 1 April 2017. After more than three years in detention – one in...

Treatment of refugees and asylum seekers ‘cruel, inhuman or degrading’, but does not warrant prosecution, ICC office saysAustralia’s offshore detention regime is a “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment” and unlawful under international law, the international criminal court’s prosecutor has said.But the office of the prosecutor has stopped short of deciding to prosecute the Australian government, saying that while the imprisonment of refugees and asylum...

I have been hoping the new year will fulfil my dreams and wishes for the past seven new yearsAnother new year approaches. A new year signifies new hope, new prospects, and new ideas for the future.Each new year people throughout the world hold infinite hope, wishes for a better life, a more fulfilling life. Continue reading...

Resettlement in the US has allowed some long-persecuted people to flourish, but that doesn’t let Australia off the hook“To freedom.” Imran, a 25-year-old Rohingya refugee from Myanmar, raises a glass with a big smile. We are in a bustling restaurant on Chicago’s north side. This midwestern city seems a million miles from Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, or the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru,...

Lawyers for refugees say case important given the government wants to repeal medevac legislation Peter Dutton is seeking to appeal in the high court a federal court ruling relating to dozens of medical transfers of asylum seekers and refugees.The government argued the federal court had no jurisdiction to hear cases brought on behalf of refugees and asylum seekers in offshore centres on Manus Island...

Aingimea takes office as Australia attempts to repeal medevac laws and Nauru accused of blocking medical care to refugeesNauru’s new president, Lionel Aingimea, says he will be like a “father of the nation”, guiding and protecting the South Pacific island’s 12,000 people.Aingimea won the vote for presidency on Tuesday, 12 votes to six, against former finance minister David Adeang. Continue reading...

Results come amid continuing humanitarian crisis for almost 300 refugees still on the islandNauru’s president, Baron Waqa, has lost his seat in parliament.Election results from his electorate of Boe show that Waqa, who has been president since 2013, lost to Asterio Appi and Martin Hunt. Continue reading...