Refugee Update
Feb. 19th, 2016 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easySending Children To Hell Without An Exit Strategy (Huffington Post Australia, 19 February 2016). Senator Sarah Hanson-Young: "... the government wants people to believe that there are only two options; either treat people seeking asylum cruelly or let them risk their lives on the open ocean. I'm here to explain that there is a third way... The Australian Greens want to put a fair and efficient process in place that would see people's claims for protection assessed in the region, before they are forced into taking a dangerous boat journey. For that to work, Australia needs to lead a huge effort in our region; establishing reception facilities in Indonesia and Malaysia, operating them so that people have access to healthcare and education, funding the UNHCR so that they can assess people's claims quickly, and then bringing those that need protection here safely. And let's be honest, if the government genuinely cared about dangerous boat journeys they wouldn't tow them back out to sea, they'd fund proper search and rescue operations."
Holy shit, somebody said it: Psychiatrist likens immigration detention to Nazis and gulags (SMH, 16 February 2016). "'Public numbing and indifference' towards state abuses in Nazi Germany resembles that enabling Australia's immigration detention centres, a prominent psychiatrist says, also likening public complicity in the detention regime to the White Australia policy."
Australian doctors should boycott working in detention centres (SMH, 18 February 2016), argues a former Australian immigration detention doctor.
Refugee left homeless in Papua New Guinea after being resettled from Australian-run detention (GA, 19 February 2016)
Catching up on links:
Key witness in Reza Barati murder trial fears he will be killed on Manus Island (GA, 16 January 2016)
How Australia's immigration detention regime crushed Fazel Chegeni (GA, 21 December 2015)
Manus Island: asylum seeker who lost eye in riot has claim against government, G4S settled (SMH, 18 December 2015)
Holy shit, somebody said it: Psychiatrist likens immigration detention to Nazis and gulags (SMH, 16 February 2016). "'Public numbing and indifference' towards state abuses in Nazi Germany resembles that enabling Australia's immigration detention centres, a prominent psychiatrist says, also likening public complicity in the detention regime to the White Australia policy."
Australian doctors should boycott working in detention centres (SMH, 18 February 2016), argues a former Australian immigration detention doctor.
Refugee left homeless in Papua New Guinea after being resettled from Australian-run detention (GA, 19 February 2016)
Catching up on links:
Key witness in Reza Barati murder trial fears he will be killed on Manus Island (GA, 16 January 2016)
How Australia's immigration detention regime crushed Fazel Chegeni (GA, 21 December 2015)
Manus Island: asylum seeker who lost eye in riot has claim against government, G4S settled (SMH, 18 December 2015)
