Refugee Update
Aug. 3rd, 2015 06:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyVisit the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre Foodbank page for instructions on donating food and other necessities via the Web or in person in Melbourne.
Sign a petition against the Border Force Act's Secrecy provisions.
The Afghan asylum seeker who died at Yongah Hill last Friday was Mohammad Nasim Najafi. He had been in immigration detention for four years. He leaves behind a wife and two children. Yoongah Hill is one of the detention centres in which convicted criminals, some of them violent, are held before deportation along with asylum seekers and visa overstayers. ETA: Gosford Anglican Church has shared some of Mohammad's writing.
Fact check: Are staff working in detention centres protected by whistleblower laws if they speak out? "Whistleblower laws apply to workers in offshore detention centres who come across wrongdoing, but questions remain as to how well these laws protect those workers if they choose to speak to the media."; Lawyers and doctors reject assurances on detention centre secrecy
Nauru: asylum seekers needing medical care to be flown to PNG, not Australia. This is likely to prevent them from taking legal steps to prevent their being returned to Nauru.
Nauru toddler suffered tuberculosis for months before test: "An Iranian toddler detained on Nauru had visible signs of tuberculosis for three months before medical tests were ordered and was then forced to wait three weeks for medication to arrive after he tested positive".
Nurse describes horror at treatment of asylum seekers onshore and offshore (Daily Telegraph, 22 July. When even the Terror is against it, you know you've got a problem.)
On Nauru, women must ask male guards for sanitary products every time they visit the toiler; detainees lack clothes which fit and children have no shoes which fit.
A letter to my patient, whose terminal cancer is the least of her worries (GA, 3 August)
Sign a petition against the Border Force Act's Secrecy provisions.
The Afghan asylum seeker who died at Yongah Hill last Friday was Mohammad Nasim Najafi. He had been in immigration detention for four years. He leaves behind a wife and two children. Yoongah Hill is one of the detention centres in which convicted criminals, some of them violent, are held before deportation along with asylum seekers and visa overstayers. ETA: Gosford Anglican Church has shared some of Mohammad's writing.
Fact check: Are staff working in detention centres protected by whistleblower laws if they speak out? "Whistleblower laws apply to workers in offshore detention centres who come across wrongdoing, but questions remain as to how well these laws protect those workers if they choose to speak to the media."; Lawyers and doctors reject assurances on detention centre secrecy
Nauru: asylum seekers needing medical care to be flown to PNG, not Australia. This is likely to prevent them from taking legal steps to prevent their being returned to Nauru.
Nauru toddler suffered tuberculosis for months before test: "An Iranian toddler detained on Nauru had visible signs of tuberculosis for three months before medical tests were ordered and was then forced to wait three weeks for medication to arrive after he tested positive".
Nurse describes horror at treatment of asylum seekers onshore and offshore (Daily Telegraph, 22 July. When even the Terror is against it, you know you've got a problem.)
On Nauru, women must ask male guards for sanitary products every time they visit the toiler; detainees lack clothes which fit and children have no shoes which fit.
A letter to my patient, whose terminal cancer is the least of her worries (GA, 3 August)
