Word: nauru
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...full of 5,516 asylum seekers arrived that year - the conservative John Howard government established the grimly named "Pacific Solution," which diverted asylum seekers arriving to Australia by boat to remote detention centers scattered around the Pacific Ocean. Holding camps were set up on the small island nation of Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, where would-be refugees were kept indefinitely while their applications were processed. Many were confined in the premises while construction was still being completed, much to the dismay of human-rights groups, and some legitimate refugees were stuck in the camps for more...
...month, refugee law experts are far from sure he's right. What is clear is the law's broad intent: to extend the Pacific Solution - which excised dozens of Australian islands from the official migration zone so boat people landing on them could be sent to processing centers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea - to the Australian mainland. Those arriving illegally by boat will now be sent to such centers and, if found to be refugees, resettled elsewhere...
...found to be refugees. It may have to be, given the likely difficulty of finding countries willing to take them off Australia's hands, says McDowell: "Resettlement countries are becoming more selective in who they take, from where, and on whose terms." Many of those taken to Nauru in 2001 and found to be refugees were accepted by New Zealand, but in Wellington, a spokesman for Immigration Minister David Cunliffe says Australia has made no request for talks on a future resettlement deal. He might expect a call soon...
...Japan has been doling out aid to developing members of the IWC, such as the Pacific islands of Nauru and Tuvalu, to line up support ahead of the annual meeting in St. Kitts and Nevis this June. "If the pro-whaling forces succeed in achieving a simple majority this year," says Australia's Environment Minister, Ian Campbell, who locked horns with Japanese delegates last year, "it'll set back the cause of conservation." For one thing, Japan will be able to put an end to those pesky condemnations of its scientific quota. Ending the moratorium, however, would require the support...
...That threat may have emanated from a Nauru-registered Islamist website run by the previously unknown Brigade Istimata Internasional, which features what it claims is a floor plan of a U.S. embassy and lays out ways to attack the ambassador's office with rocket-propelled grenades or a mixture of TNT and the rodenticide Rodex. Anti-American sentiment has been running high in Indonesia, with the recently retracted Newsweek report on abuses of the Koran at the U.S.'s Guant?namo Bay detention camp prompting protests in several cities. And Indonesian newspapers reported last week that a group of 23 Indonesians...