Congratulations to two exceptional women, Dr Madeline Garlick UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and our own Jane McAdam!

OPINION: It’s time for answers for Africa’s ‘climate refugees’ UNSW Kaldor Centre University of Nairobi Tamara Wood #climate #refugees news.trust.org/item/202105071…

🌟 Join us for a game-changing talk on refugee empowerment & participation! Hear from Australian & New Zealand reps, UNHCR, Porticus, & Act for Peace.
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#APSOR 2024 #APSOR #Refugees #Summit #AsiaPacific

A huge congratulations to Jane McAdam on this honour.

BREAKING from Paul Karp Guardian Australia: The deportation bill, which we have argued should be scrapped, seems to be off the agenda for this week.

📣🌟GOOD NEWS ALERT! Jane McAdam has been named a University of Oxford RefugeeStudiesCentre Honorary Associate, among just three others: Filippo Grandi, Jan Egeland and Guy Goodwin-Gill! #Proud of her ongoing contributions for & with refugees 👏 inside.unsw.edu.au/awards/unsw-pr…

🗞️Claire Higgins adds up what #Budget2024 means for #refugees and people seeking asylum. bit.ly/3UZpIY2

There were nearly 47 million new internal displacements last year. For the first time in many years, nearly half were conflict-related and half were disaster-related (disasters normally outstrip conflict significantly) api.internal-displacement.org/sites/default/…

ICYMI: Last week, the senate inquiry into the Migration Amendment Bill 2024 delivered its findings, detailing the potentially devastating impacts of the Bill for a much larger cohort than was initially reported. Read now ⬇️ theconversation.com/the-government…

The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

👇More praise🙌 for Shankari Chandran’s new novel Safe Haven. Come and listen to her & Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Viet in convo w/Daniel Ghezelbash Sydney Writers' Festival – a FREE event! Booking essential: bit.ly/4b7h1kk while tickets last.

Few –if any– people seeking asylum in the #UK will go to #Rwanda . Most will remain in the UK. For those who are refugees, the idea that this plan will deter them doesn’t stack up and is not borne out by Australian experience, says Madeline Gleeson UNSW Law & Justice theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

Check out this important thread by colleague Anna on the Australian High Court Decision today.

High Court dismisses key challenge to indefinite immigration detention. What does it mean?
By Sara Dehm and Anthea Vogl theconversation.com/high-court-dis… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

'data riddled with errors combined w/a very primitive tool that is not backed by science...create what is potentially a highly inaccurate tool that appears to be identifying the vast majority of people as high risk”
Daniel Ghezelbash in excellent Ariel Bogle story
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Excellent thread on today's High Court decision in #ASF17 and its ramifications, by UNSW Kaldor Centre's Anna

An amazing 🧵 about High Court of Australia decision in #ASF17 .

Judgment has been delivered in ASF17 v Commonwealth of Australia eresources.hcourt.gov.au/downloadPdf/20… hcourt.gov.au/assets/publica…

ICYMI: FMR 68 - #Externalisation (Nov 2021)

With States increasingly taking action beyond their own borders to prevent the arrival & resettlement of #Refugees & #AsylumSeekers , the articles in this issue examine the consequences for protection.

See: fmreview.org/externalisation

Shankari Chandran’s new novel Safe Haven gets an excellent review here. Come and listen to her & Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen in convo w/Daniel Ghezelbash Sydney Writers' Festival (Book: bit.ly/4b7h1kk while tickets last.) Viet
theconversation.com/shankari-chand… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

The deficiencies identified by community groups, legal experts and human rights and charity organisations cannot be fixed through amendments, says Daniel Ghezelbash