We detain 2,000 ayslum-seeking children each year in awful conditions Tuesday, 20 October 2009 While Ali waited for the van to take him to join his parents in Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre, my daughters helped me pack a bag of toys for his long journey. He was desperate for his mum. He’s two years old. [...]
Now we have passed 500 – we look forward to receiving the government’s justification for this immoral and unnecessary abuse of children. Our next target is to have one signature for every child that the UKBA will lock up this year. That’s four times as many as have signed so far – so please pass [...]
The plight of the children of asylum seekers represents a sadly unexceptional failure of public conscience, writes Henry Porter in The Observer on Sunday 18 October
A great boost to the end child detention now campaign came with the news that in the first five days more than 40 MPs have signed or pledged to sign the House of Commons early day motion sponsored by Chris Mullin – including new signatures from John Austin, Norman Baker, Colin Breed, Annette Brooke, Ronnie [...]
MPs John Battle, Peter Bottomley, Mark Durkan, Fabian Hamilton, Lynne Jones and Sarah Teather are among the first to sign early day motion 1982 in the name of Chris Mullin calling for an end to the detention of children. Parliamentary support is expected to grow over the coming days as MPs respond to the dozens [...]
Ahead of Chris Mullin’s early day motion calling for an end to child detention on Monday (12 October) Birmingham Selly Oak MP Lynne Jones and Leeds West MP John Battle have joined with Conservative MP Peter Bottomley and LibDem MP Sarah Teather to co-sponsor the motion. Meanwhile in the House of Lords Bishop John Packer [...]
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