Lawyer David Manne has recently taken the Australian government to court over its plan to send detained asylum seekers who arrive by boat in Australia to Malaysia. Burmese nationals comprise one of the largest groups seeking asylum in Australia. DVB spoke to him about what he sees as the major issues with the case. The …
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One refugee's indefinite nightmare in Australia
Sayad fled a witch hunt in both Burma and Malaysia and is now being held in indefinite detenton in Australia, a victim of the Gillard administration’s controversial refugee policy
Travel restrictions for Muslims loosened
Muslims in Arakan state allowed to travel outside of their designated regions after decades of tight state-enacted restrictions
Driven from Burma, scorned by Bangladesh
Dhaka’s intransigence in refusing to allow protection and assistance to the Rohingya exacerbates one of the world’s most neglected crises
Refugees struggle as EU cuts aid
Reduction in funding to camps along Thai border angers refugees who claim insufficient help is being given in food and livelihoods sectors
Young and stateless
Around 28,000 refugees from the Rohingya minority in western Burma live in two official camps in Bangladesh. They are the more fortunate ones: hundreds of thousands more live a precarious existence in squalid, unofficial camps like Kutupalong in the country’s eastern Cox’ Bazar, where they cannot access healthcare or education. The Rohingya, long persecuted by …