UN high-level forum spotlights young peoples potential as agents of change

25 July 2011 – The United Nations today stressed the need to ensure that protection safeguards are enforced as Australia and Malaysia carry out a refugee exchange deal aimed at curbing people smuggling and the dangerous boat journeys that lead to loss of life at sea. Under the agreement signed today by the two Governments, Australia will reportedly send 800 asylum-seekers to Malaysia over the next four years in exchange for Australia resettling 4,000 registered refugees currently in Malaysia .... [More]