UNHCR calls for end to detention of asylum-seekers and refugees

The UN refugee agency today issued a new global strategy aimed at helping countries move away from the detention of asylum seekers, refugees and stateless people worldwide.

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UNHCR calls for end to detention of asylum-seekers and refugees

The UN refugee agency today issued a new global strategy aimed at helping countries move away from the detention of asylum seekers, refugee...

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Children Behind Bars, Traumatized and Afraid

When Human Rights Watch first saw Yemi, the 17-year-old boy was huddled on a concrete bench in the corner of a windowless, graffitied holding cell run by the French border police. Clad in a stiff new leather jacket but otherwise without clothing warm enough to face Paris in January, Yemi had been in the cell for nine hours.

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Children Behind Bars, Traumatized and Afraid

When Human Rights Watch first saw Yemi, the 17-year-old boy was huddled on a concrete bench in the corner of a windowless, graffitied holdi...

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Innocents at the Border

The surge of desperate young migrants across the southwest border has the Obama administration scrambling to respond. It was clearly ill-prepared for a problem that grew steadily for years before exploding this year, with more than 47,000 unaccompanied children caught at the border since October.

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Innocents at the Border

The surge of desperate young migrants across the southwest border has the Obama administration scrambling to respond. It was clearly ill-pr...

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Pictures of misery: what children draw in detention on Christmas Island

Drawings by child detainees gives a chilling insight into the suffering being inflicted upon them in Australia's name

A drawing by a child detained on Christmas Island. Photograph: Human Rights Commission

An alarming aspect of the pictures drawn by children detained on Christmas Island, and revealed by the Human Rights Commission's national investigation into their plight, is what is blanked out – the children’s boat IDs. In every detention facility I have visited, children sign their artworks with this ID; they respond to this ID; they know each other’s ID numbers. The institutionalisation of these children is all-pervasive and will take a very long time to recover from if they are ever released into society.

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Pictures of misery: what children draw in detention on Christmas Island

Drawings by child detainees gives a chilling insight into the suffering being inflicted upon them in Australia's name A dr...

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Immigrant Children Detained in Greece Generates Protests

The Ecologist Greens party today condemned the detention of nine Afghan children at an immigrant detention center in the Greek island of Lesbos.

In a statement, the group recalls this action violates the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child since children should not be treated as offenders of the law but as beneficiaries of protection.

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Immigrant Children Detained in Greece Generates Protests

The Ecologist Greens party today condemned the detention of nine Afghan children at an immigrant detention center in the Greek island of Le...

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