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...chief international instrument defining the rights of refugees, the Convention was created by 26 nations, including Australia, to deal with a chaotic tide of refugees after World War II. Now, says Michelle Foster, director of Melbourne University's Research Programme in International Refugee Law, it risks undermining some of the Convention's key principles. Article 31, for example, specifies that refugees should not be penalized for illegally entering a country when fleeing directly from a place of persecution. In 2001, when most boat people reaching Australia were coming from the Middle East and South Asia via other countries, Ruddock emphasized...
...Also in doubt, says Foster, is Article 33, under which signatories agree not to return "in any manner whatsoever" refugees to a situation of persecution. Australia and Indonesia are discussing joint naval patrols, and a spokesman for Defence Minister Brendan Nelson says the possibility of turning boats from Papua back to Indonesia is under consideration. Such a move would breach Article 33, says Foster - as would setting up an offshore processing system inferior to Australia's, which could result in flawed decisions and genuine refugees being repatriated to life-threatening situations. Despite criticism that the Convention is ill equipped...
...accepted an offer to serve as Princeton University’s Class Day speaker. According to the Daily Princetonian, Princeton had been working to bring Clinton to Class Day since the beginning of the school year. At the University of Pennsylvania, where two-time academy award winning actress Jodie Foster will serve as commencement speaker this year, several students expressed discontent with the choice. “Considering past speakers, we were under the impression it would be someone with a recognizable social commitment,” said UPenn Senior Class President Pierre Gooding. At Yale, where graduates will hear...
Most freshmen can roll out of bed at 10:57 a.m. for Expos at 11 a.m. But for the select few in Freshman Seminar 21w, the journey to class is a little more rugged. Their class is jointly taught by Dr. David R. Foster and Mother Nature herself, deep in the heart of the Harvard forest. A forest, you say? Yes, my child, a forest. Indeed, in 1907, Harvard bought a forest, and soon added a museum, colonial farmhouses, and, most importantly, DSL. According to Forest Director Dr. David R. Foster—whose last name...
...Horowitz has always been up for the challenge. At eight, he became the world’s youngest licensed amateur radio operator. More recently, he served as a model for the protagonist in astronomer Carl Sagan’s novel Contact, made into a 1997 movie starring Jodie Foster. Fame can bring glory, but not necessarily little green men—or their flashing lights...