Global
- Kenya has announced that it will no longer host refugees, citing economic, environmental, and security concerns. Read more: http://www.unhcr.org/
news/latest/2016/5/5730b5f36/ unhcr-appeals-kenya-decision- end-refugee-hosting.html - 41,000 asylum seekers in the Netherlands are being housed in former prisons. Read more:http://www.smh.com.au/
world/dutch-prisons-offer- asylum-to-refugees-20160518- goxubl.html - 14,000 refugees were rescued in the Mediterranean by the Italian coast guard in the last week alone. Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/
news/2016-05-28/around-14,000- migrants-rescued-off-boats-in- last-week,-un-says/7455610
At Home
- Cate Blanchett has been appointed a UNCHR Goodwill Ambassador following a humanitarian mission to Jordan. Read more: http://www.unhcr.org/
news/latest/2016/5/5727776f6/ cate-blanchett-appointed- unhcr-goodwill-ambassador.html - Two Iranian refugees on Nauru have agreed to be transferred to Cambodia, despite the resettlement program’s poor record. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/
world/two-refugees-on-nauru- agree-to-resettle-in-cambodia- reviving-teetering-55m-deal- 20160524-gp30gh - Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has come under fire for his comments about “illiterate and innumerate” refugees taking Australian jobs. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/
federal-politics/federal- election-2016/peter-dutton- says-illiterate-and- innumerate-refugees-would- take-australian-jobs-20160517- goxhj1.html - Asylum seekers on Manus Island are now free to leave the detention centre, but cannot leave the island unless they consent to be resettled in Papua New Guinea. Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/
news/2016-05-12/png- authorities-say-manus- refugees-no-longer-in- detention/7407826 - A Somali refugee is in intensive care in Brisbane after receiving an emergency caesarean section on Nauru. Read more: http://www.sbs.com.au/
news/article/2016/05/14/ refugee-mum-stable-brisbane- hospital-after-nauru-c-section
