Clare Sambrook, novelist and journalist, has won the 2010 Paul Foot Award for her writing and reporting in support of the campaign to end child immigration detention. Thanking the judges for this ‘massive honour’, Clare told the audience at the Guardian/Private Eye ceremony at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in London this [...]
Shining a light on refugee children’s experience By Anthony Robinson Say the word ‘refugee’ to yourself. Without thinking, what images and notions enter your mind? Now, think about it. The last Saturday of Refugee Week 2010 was an important day in the lives of four refugee children and their families – a celebration of childhood [...]
We are pleased to pass on this message from Paddington Bear to all our supporters, which the writer Michael Bond OBE (and No10 petition signer) has been kind enough to forward: “Whenever I hear about children from foreign countries being put into detention centres, I think how lucky I am to be living at number [...]
In today’s Guardian leading writers urge government halt to child detention: We have been disturbed by Guardian reports (Children made ‘sick with fear’ in UK immigration detention centres, 13 October) about the government’s detention of asylum-seeking children. Doctors’ findings that children at Yarl’s Wood suffered from confusion, fear, sleep problems, headaches, abdominal pain, severe emotional [...]
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