Keywords: Refugee Convention
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 27 July 2011
30 Comments
The Malaysian solution is unprincipled, but it might just work — stopping the boats. If other countries try to replicate it, we will have to tear up the Refugee Convention and start again. And the plight of unaccompanied minors transported from our shores to Malaysia will be on our conscience.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 19 July 2011
12 Comments
This is not a regional solution to a regional problem, but a bilateral attempt at solving an Australian problem. To stop the boats, one needs to engage in measures contrary to the Refugee Convention. Church groups can not endorse something they know to be either unworkable or immoral.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Kerry Murphy
- 07 October 2009
13 Comments
Homosexuals in Iran and allegedly 'adulterous' women in some countries are at risk of execution. Such cases may not qualify for refugee status in Australia, but would benefit from a 'complementary protection' Bill currently before Parliament.
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AUSTRALIA
- Maryanne Loughry
- 17 March 2008
The international community reacts rather than anticipates. It was only when hundreds of thousands of people were displaced after
the Bolshevik revolution, that protection mechanisms such as the 1951 Refugee Convention began to be developed.
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