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Malaysian refugee swap spells human rights disaster
The Conversation, Vol.27 July
The Conversation Media Group
2011
Abstract
On Monday, Australia and Malaysia signed a deal that will mean 800 refugees that have arrived in Australia will be swapped with 4,000 verified refugees from Malaysia.
This deal from both Australian and Malaysian perspectives seems mind boggling. For Australia, if the policy is not implemented properly and human rights of refugees are seen to be abused then Julia Gillard’s Labor government will face political disaster. For Malaysia, it’s out of character with its long-term foreign policy of limited engagement and could embarass the nation by putting a global spotlight on Malaysia’s terrible human rights record.
Details
- Title
- Malaysian refugee swap spells human rights disaster
- Authors/Creators
- G. Lopez (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- The Conversation, Vol.27 July
- Publisher
- The Conversation Media Group
- Identifiers
- 991005543580707891
- Copyright
- The Author
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Other
- Publisher URL
- http://theconversation.com/au
- Resource Sub-type
- Nonrefereed Article
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