François Crépeau: "Any Detention of Migrant Children is a Violation of their Rights and Must End"22/10/2016 In this article, François Crépeau, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants and McGill's Professor, argues that children should be treated as children first and non-custodial alternatives to detention should be offered to all unaccompanied children and to families with children.
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Britain has agreed to private sponsorship of refugees. In this article, Tim Finch, one of the architects of the new policy, explains why it can help countries successfully expand resettlement programs.
Researchers at York University, Toronto, are studying the effects of migration-related parent-child separation among Chinese immigrants in the States.
The Guardian has published a shocking database of reports denouncing the systematic abuse of children and women, in particular, among asylum seekers held by the Australian government who live in the detention camp on the island of Nauru. Sexual abuse, assaults, and cruel forms of humiliation seem to be the rule, not the exception, in the camp.
The Global Migration and Health Initiative supports the 'OHIP for All' campaign promoted and supported by a large number of Ontario-based organizations and individuals to denounce the obstacles faced by a large number of people living in the Province when they need to access essential health services such as maternal and cancer care.
The international humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) has recently announced it will no longer take funds from the European Union and Member States, to protest their damaging policies and practices aimed to push people in need of help away from the European shores.
Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court Rules Australian Detention Camp on Manus Island Uncostitutional2/5/2016 As recently reported by the BBC, the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea has declared the refugee detention camp on Manus Island unconsitutional. The decision has resulted in a stalemate between the Australian and the Papua New Guinea governments over who is responsible for the almost 1,000 asylum seekers currently detained on the island.
Situations like this one are important opportunities for reflection on the contradictions between the universal right to health and national priorities.
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