Refugee News – November 2017

Global refugee news …

Global

• Refugees from across Africa are being bought and sold in modern day slave markets in Libya. Read more.
• Sexual predators and human traffickers are targeting Rohingya refugees in camps on the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar. Read more.
• Myanmar and Bangladesh have signed an agreement for the return of 300 Rohingya refugees per day. Read more.

At Home

• A Sri Lankan asylum seeker has died on Manus Island in an apparent suicide. Read more.
• A coalition of human rights groups have presented reports to the United Nations that condemn Australia’s refugee policies. Read more.
• Australia has given $30 million to UNICEF to support vulnerable children in Lebanon. Read more.
• A man who participated in a people smuggling operation in 2013 has been sentenced to four years in prison. Read more.