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JRS Australia releases 'Strangers No More' federal election policy statement; calls for next Australian government to adopt policies supporting welcome and protection.

Election Statement: Strangers No More: How Australia’s leaders can welcome, promote, protect and integrate forced migrants. As we step into the final week of the Federal Election 2019 campaign, JRS Australia is pleased to release its election

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Australia: struggling to survive on an atoll

The coming months will see the relocation of the first 40 families from the Carteret Islands onto the mainland of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.

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Asia Pacific: Islands at risk: Climate change in the Pacific

We live in constant fear of the adverse impacts of climate change. For a coral atoll nation, sea level rise and more severe weather events loom as a growing threat to our entire population. The threat is real and serious, and is of no difference to

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Pacific Displacement

The onset of climate change, and the displacement induced by it – specifically in the Pacific region – has necessitated the establishment of JRS’ Pacific Displacement project.

This project focuses on the psychological and social impact on affected populations, and looks at ways of mapping their needs.

So far the project has centred on the Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea; climate change has already forced the relocation of hundreds of residents from the islands to Bougainville on the PNG mainland.