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🇬🇧 The UK is pressing on with a plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda - even after a European court halted the first flight.

🚨 Campaigners are alarmed - but it's not the first nation to send people overseas.

Here's how others have adopted offshoring policies. 🧵 A view of The Hope Hostel accommodation where migrants from Members of the staff board a plane reported by British mediaMigrants who launched from the coast of northern France cros
🇦🇺 Australia

⭕️ Introduced in 2001, the country’s offshoring asylum programme specifically targets migrants arriving in Australian waters by boat.

🌏 They have been transferred to detention centres in Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and the South Pacific island nation of Nauru. The Australian coat-of-arms is displayed in the entrance of
🗓 The "Pacific Solution" policy was dismantled in 2008, but it was revived in 2012 and became more restrictive in 2013.

👉 Since 2012, more than 4,000 asylum seekers, including children, have been sent to Manus and Nauru for processing. A refugee advocate holds a placard as she participates in a
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Why do refugees undertake precarious journeys?
@SanobarFatma writes a comprehensive piece on refugee crisis on this #WorldRefugeeWeek

youthkiawaaz.com/2020/06/world-…

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Who Are Refugees?
A refugee is a person who is forced to flee their country or move to safety within their countries because of violence, war, persecution, and climate change. They cannot return home or are scared to do so.
The word refugee comes from refuge which means “the state of being sheltered from pursuit,danger or difficulty.”Every year the World Refugee Day is observed on June 20,and is dedicated to raising awareness on the situation of refugees and soliciting support throughout the world
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