Posted on August 8, 2011, 10:31 pm, by admin, under
Barnardo's,
campaigns,
children,
G4S,
Nick Clegg,
Pease Pottage,
Prime Minister,
Release Carnival,
royal colleges of medicine,
SOAS Detainee Support Group,
Tinsley House.
Alida Alisis, this article originally appeared in openDemocracy on 8 August 2011. Back in March, almost a year after the government had promised to end what Nick Clegg called the “shameful practice” of locking up asylum seeking families in conditions known to harm their mental health, Barnardo’s stunned children’s advocates by revealing that it had [...]
Posted on August 5, 2011, 4:20 pm, by admin, under
Australia,
children,
Christmas Island,
Julia Gillard,
Malaysia,
mistreatment,
Unaccompanied minor,
UNICEF.
“Video of asylum seekers being loaded on to flights to Malaysia will be posted on facebook and Youtube as a scare tactic to frighten off other refugees from coming to Australia illegally on boats”, according to Sky News Australia. “Every step of the 54 latest arrivals, picked up off the coast of Western Australia on Sunday, [...]