18/08/2012
A senior United Nations official warned that the re-opening of offshore detention centres for migrants and asylum-seekers arriving in Australia by sea could result in violations of human rights, and called on its Government to rethink the country’s asylum and migration policy.
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Villawood Immigration Detention Centre outside Sydney, Australia. Photo: IRIN
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According to media reports, the Australian Parliament passed an amendment on Thursday [17 August] that would allow the re-opening of offshore detention centres for migrants and asylum-seekers arriving in Australia by sea, the UN reports.
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18/08/2012
Ramallah, IRIN* – Rasmiyye Hamande has lived in a cave in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) for most of her life, which may have been a blessing in disguise. “This cave,” she says, “can’t be demolished so easily.”
Photo: Shabtai Gold/IRIN. In 2012 395 Palestinian structures were demolished in the West Bank.
Other places in the village of Al-Mufaqara, in Area C – the 60 percent of the West Bank under Israeli military control – are more easily destroyed.
Some 622 structures were demolished by Israeli forces in the West Bank in 2011, a 42 percent increase from 2010. 2012 could well surpass last year’s numbers, as by the end of July, some 395 demolished structures in oPt were registered by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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18/08/2012
By Rajesh Krishnan*, Greenpeace India — Genetically engineered (GE) food is a hot button topic in India. What happens here often sends ripples throughout the GE debate worldwide, but what happened last week is surely a major milestone.
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The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture, made up of members of parliament (MPs) from across party lines, tabled its latest report on GE food and GE crops following intense consultation with farmers, environmental groups, scientists and consumer groups.
The committee undertook extensive consultation – perhaps the most comprehensive taken anywhere in the world. The committee took two and half years holding hearings across India and going through some 493 memoranda running to some 15,000 pages.
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