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ECDN Blog Feed- Senate Judiciary Committee Takes Steps To Protect Immigrants In ... May 21, 2013Rights groups claimed the votes as small victories in their long effect to chip away at the abuses of immigration detention and deportation. Among the biggest victories for the ... Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, would protect children of detained and deported parents from entering foster care or becoming stranded if their mother of father is taken by immigration ag […]Seth Freed Wessler
- Australia's Aboriginal children detained at the world's highest rates ... May 1, 2013End of 2009, 743 per 100,000 American adults were incarcerated. ... Will Australia likewise wait till juvenile detention becomes as unaffordable as it has in the United States or will it act now as is it is weakly indicating? […]Gerry Georgatos
- End Child Detention Now » Blog Archive » Santa and helpers ... December 10, 2012End Child Detention Now's Keep Your Promise campaign launched in January 2011, calling upon Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to keep the coalition government's promise to end child ... […]simon
- End Child Detention Now » Blog Archive » Support the Day of Action ... November 5, 2012Please support the Day of Action against Barnardos on Thursday – a so-called 'children's charity' that makes the disgusting and shocking mistreatment of families like the Salehs possible and whose so-called 'red lines' are ... […]simon
- End Child Detention Now » Blog Archive » ECDN addresses the ... October 21, 2012End Child Detention Now ran a well-attended workshop at the Medsin 2012 Conference at Warwick University on Saturday 20 October. Esme Madill from ECDN talked about the physical and mental harm experienced by ... […]simon
- End Child Detention Now » Blog Archive » PROMISES, PROMISES March 2, 2011The most recent update on the Coalition Government's promises to end child immigration detention is provided by a letter from David Wood of the UK Border Agency. It gives more specific details regarding the pre-departure ... […]admin
- Let's make sure they really do end child detention now ... May 12, 2010'We will end the detention of children for immigration purposes,' says today's coalition agreement. A stunning victory for children, decency and the Liberal Democrats if this pledge proves good. That may be a very big if. […]Clare Sambrook
- Gordon Brown on child detention | openDemocracy May 4, 2010Here, OurKingdom provides some background on this debate with an exchange on child detention between Brown and Clare Sambrook, journalist and oD author who campaigns with End Child Detention Now. 27 October ... […]Clare Sambrook
- End Child Detention Now. | bali rai April 8, 2010Imagine a country where innocent children, some barely toddlers, go to jail for the supposed crimes of their parents. Imagine that these same children suffer from nightmares, sleepless nights, mental and physical illness and ... […]bali rai
- Detention of asylum seeking children is abuse | The Social Care ... November 4, 2009by Clare Sambrook, a co-ordinator of citizens' campaign End Child Detention Now One key feature of government guidance issued this week on how UKBorder Agency staff should care for the children they lock up, is 'safer ... […]Simeon Brody
- Senate Judiciary Committee Takes Steps To Protect Immigrants In ... May 21, 2013
[...] Meanwhile in a number of schools across East London the Shpresa project will be collecting former refugee children’s hand prints to send to the Prime Minister asking him to end child detention. If you work with refugee children or young people who you think might like to be involved in the hand prints campaign please contact us. [...]
I would be interested in your opinions about the Lords debate, as reported here;
http://www.libdemvoice.org/what-is-happening-with-ending-child-detention-in-immigration-cases-21565.html