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[Link] 27 People Drowned Trying to Reach the UK
Read: 27/11/2021 www.vice.com
At least 27 people drowned crossing the Channel in an attempt to reach the UK from France.
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[Link] The deadly new risk Afghan women face: It starts with a strange phone call and can end with murder
Read: 22/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Her body was found riddled with bullets alongside three other women who had also been killed. Ms Ayoubi is a journalist and activist who left Afghanistan over concerns for her own safety.
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[Link] A Jan. 6 Rioter Crawled Through Swamps to Seek Asylum in Belarus
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
An American who is accused of punching a police officer during the Capitol riots is now seeking political asylum in the eastern European country of Belarus.
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[Link] Afghan embassies don’t recognise the Taliban
Read: 19/10/2021 www.economist.com
THE TALIBAN prevent girls from going to secondary school in Afghanistan. Yet the country’s ambassador to America is a woman. That is not because the group has decided that women’s rights are a good thing after all. It is just that they cannot replace her.
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[Link] Australia to stop processing asylum seekers in PNG
Read: 6/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
After that, PNG will assume full responsibility for refugees and asylum seekers in the country.
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[Link] Australian government ordered to pay 1,300 asylum seekers whose details were exposed
Read: 27/1/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has been ordered to compensate almost 1,300 asylum seekers whose details were mistakenly exposed online in one of the country’s most shocking privacy breaches.