Asylum Rights Victory in Australia

From ABC Radio Australia:

Refugee advocates in Australia have won an eight year battle to allow some of the most vulnerable people who arrive in the country refugee protection – people who face the threat of torture, inhuman treatment or execution if returned to their own country. But they often don’t meet any of the five grounds for declaring a person a refugee, including persecution because of race, religion or nationality, political opinion or membership of a particular social group. Now, Australia will change that. Click here for the full story.

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