Refugee Update
Jun. 19th, 2018 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyKurdish asylum seeker Fariborz Karami took his own life on Nauru last week. He was 26. A badly traumatised victim of torture, he had been appealing for mental health care for years. His wife, mother, and brother are still on Nauru. He is the third detainee on Nauru to die by suicide. Email your Labor senator to push for a Senate inquiry into offshore detention.
A terminally ill Hazara refugee on Nauru has been given the option of a fearful death there, without adequate medical care, or dying alone in Taiwan with no-one who can speak his language or perform appropriate funeral rites. More than 800 Australian doctors have signed a petition asking for him to be brought to Australia for palliative care.
Immigration detainees onshore are also subject to serious medical neglect, including being left untreated for Hepatitis C.
While Australia routinely separates refugees from their loved ones, the US is turning family separation into a conveyor belt process. A Facebook post by an immigration caseworker explains the situation asylum seekers find themselves in. This Tweet chain contains numerous practical ways to support refugee families crossing the Mexico-US border. Here's a powerful comment on the whole vicious business: The Language of the Trump Administration Is the Language of Domestic Violence (New Yorker, 11 June 2018)
A terminally ill Hazara refugee on Nauru has been given the option of a fearful death there, without adequate medical care, or dying alone in Taiwan with no-one who can speak his language or perform appropriate funeral rites. More than 800 Australian doctors have signed a petition asking for him to be brought to Australia for palliative care.
Immigration detainees onshore are also subject to serious medical neglect, including being left untreated for Hepatitis C.
While Australia routinely separates refugees from their loved ones, the US is turning family separation into a conveyor belt process. A Facebook post by an immigration caseworker explains the situation asylum seekers find themselves in. This Tweet chain contains numerous practical ways to support refugee families crossing the Mexico-US border. Here's a powerful comment on the whole vicious business: The Language of the Trump Administration Is the Language of Domestic Violence (New Yorker, 11 June 2018)
