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The Pacific Solution was the name given to the Australian government policy of diverting asylum seekers to detention camps on small island nations in the Pacific Ocean, rather than allowing them to land on the Australian mainland. There were a number of pieces of legislation supporting this policy, including the controversial excising of thousands of islands from Australia’s migration zone or Australian territory. The policy was developed in response to the 2001 Tampa affair and is thought to be the brainchild of then Australian Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
In Australia, the term mandatory detention describes the legislation and actions of the Australian government to detain all persons entering the country by boat without a valid visa, including children. ...
This article describes the national government of Australia. ...
The Australian migration zone refers to the parts of Australian territory where a non citizen must hold a visa to legally enter and remain. ...
The MV Tampa is a Norwegian cargo ship that was at the center of a diplomatic dispute between Australia, Norway, and Indonesia off the coast of Christmas Island. ...
Philip Maxwell Ruddock (born March 12, 1943), Australian politician, is Attorney-General in the Coalition Government of Australian Prime Minister John Howard. ...
Asylum seekers were intercepted at sea while sailing from Indonesia and moved using Australian naval vessels. Detention camps were set up on Christmas Island, Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, and on the tiny island nation of Nauru. Some were also accepted for processing by New Zealand. Most of the asylum seekers came from Afghanistan (largely of the Hazara ethnic group), Iraq (fleeing Saddam Hussein), Iran, China, and Vietnam. Manus Island is part of Manus Province in Papua New Guinea and is the largest island of the Admiralty Islands. ...
The Hazara ethnic group resides mainly in the central Afghanistan mountain region called Hazarajat. They make up anywhere between 9-20% of Afghanistans population, but an accurate census has not been taken in decades so there is little information to verify at present. ...
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All costs associated with running the centres and processing the asylum applications were met by Australia.
Criticism of the Pacific Solution The policy received criticism from a number of areas, with Amnesty International, refugee rights groups and other NGOs claiming that Australia was failing to meet its international obligations. The ad-hoc nature in which the policy evolved was also criticised, as it resulted in people being moved to Manus Island and Nauru before facilities were ready. Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international, non-governmental organization with the stated purpose of promoting all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. ...
A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an organization that is not part of a government and was not founded by states. ...
As of May 29, 2005, 1,229 asylum seekers had been processed on Nauru. Most of those detained were eventually found to be legitimate refugees, sometimes after more than three years in detention. As of October 15, 2005 all but two remaining asylum seekers had been transferred to mainland Australia with the majority of these entering the community with temporary protection visas. As of January 27, 2006, the centre continues to hold just two inmates, at an estimated $1 million AUD per month. [1] Au. ...
Several other countries are now considering setting up similar migration schemes, in particular a proposal from the EU to set up off-shore "asylum seeker processing centres" in North Africa. [2]
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