[Link] Maya Assad's family has been stateless for generations, but that could soon change

Read: 10/4/2022 www.abc.net.au

For more than a year the engineer and her businessman husband had been jobless, as the economy in the country in which she was born and raised, Lebanon, imploded.

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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] 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] Afghan refugee may lose permanent residency in Australia – for supplying identity document

Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Apermanent resident of Australia – an Afghan refugee who has lived in Brisbane for a decade – has been threatened with having his visa cancelled, and possible deportation, over an identity document the Australian government asked him to produce.

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[Link] Home affairs minister ordered into mediation with Afghan refugee detained in Australia

Read: 4/8/2021 theguardian.com

The Australian home affairs minister has been ordered into mediation with an Afghan refugee who assisted coalition forces during the Afghanistan conflict and remains in detention in Australia after eight years.

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