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Deng Adut. Deng Thiak Adut (born 1984) is a defence lawyer and refugee advocate in Western Sydney, Australia, and a former child soldier from South Sudan. His story is told in a popular short video by Western Sydney University, where he earned his law degree. He was named the 2017 New South Wales Australian of the Year.
Aguil Chut Deng was born in 1967 [1] [a] in Malakal, located in what is now the state of Upper Nile, South Sudan. [3] She was the second of seven children born to Dinka parents. Her father Chut Deng Achouth had studied medical sciences and worked at a government hospital in Khartoum. Her mother Achol Aguin Majok, a homemaker, was illiterate.
Throughout the Sudanese Civil Wars ( 1955–1972 and 1983–2005 ), many South Sudanese refugees had sought refuge in Kenya. Australia was one of the first countries to announce its support in resettling South Sudanese refugees. Thus, the South Sudanese community was the first-ever organized African community in Australia, and also the largest ...
Sudanese Australians have significant over-representation in many of Australia's crime statistics. Despite making up 0.16% of the total population of the state of Victoria, Sudanese-born offenders made up 7% of individuals charged in home invasions, 6% of those in car theft offenses and 14% of individuals charged with aggravated robbery ...
Lost Boys of Sudan. School children in Kakuma camp, Kenya. The Lost Boys of Sudan refers to a group of over 20,000 boys of the Nuer and Dinka ethnic groups who were displaced or orphaned during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1987–2005). Two million were killed and others were severely affected by the conflict. [1]
The deterrents did little to stop immigrants; roughly 12,000 asylum seekers reached Australia from 1999 to 2001. [4] In 2011, Australia received 2.5% of the world's total number of claims for asylum. [6] During 2012, more than 17,000 asylum seekers arrived via boat. [7] The majority of the refugees came from Afghanistan, Iran, and Sri Lanka. [8]
Sudanese refugees are persons originating from the country of Sudan, but seeking refuge outside the borders of their native country. In recent history, Sudan has been the stage for prolonged conflicts and civil wars, as well as environmental changes, namely desertification. These forces have resulted not only in violence and famine but also the ...
The Dinka people (Dinka: Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ) are a Nilotic ethnic group native to South Sudan.The Dinka mostly live along the Nile, from Mangalla-Bor [1] to Renk, in the region of Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile (two out of three Provinces that were formerly part of southern Sudan), and the Abyei Area of the Ngok Dinka in South Sudan.