On Tuesday August 9th, the Guardian released 2,000 incident reports from Australia’s immigration detention and offshore asylum processing centre on the Island of Nauru, an island in the Central Pacific so remote, that it’s nearest neighbour is Kiribati over 300 km away. According to the Guardian’s analysis, 51.3% of the reports involve children, despite childrenContinue reading “The Nauru Files and Australia’s Dangerous Refugee Rhetoric”
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The Nauru Files and Australia's Dangerous Refugee Rhetoric
On Tuesday August 9th, the Guardian released 2,000 incident reports from Australia’s immigration detention and offshore asylum processing centre on the Island of Nauru, an island in the Central Pacific so remote, that it’s nearest neighbour is Kiribati over 300 km away. According to the Guardian’s analysis, 51.3% of the reports involve children, despite childrenContinue reading “The Nauru Files and Australia's Dangerous Refugee Rhetoric”
The Human Right to Housing
“This fact–the great fact that poverty and all its concomitants show themselves in communities just as they develop into the conditions toward which material progress tends–proves that the social difficulties existing wherever a certain stage of progress has been reached, do not arise from local circumstances, but are, in some way or another, engendered byContinue reading “The Human Right to Housing”
The United States’ ‘Hypocrisy’: International Reaction to Ferguson
The United States prides itself on being a champion of human rights around the globe. But what happens when human rights become an issue within its own borders? On August 9th, 2014, white police officer Darren Wilson shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, USA. We do not yet know exactly whatContinue reading “The United States’ ‘Hypocrisy’: International Reaction to Ferguson”
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