Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada Podcast 23 December 2015 “I think there’s something extremely powerful about the role of art in sustaining us as human beings,” says London-based poet and activist Rafeef Ziadah in a recent interview with The Electronic Intifada. “And if you look at social movements generally, what we remember of them is the […]
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Holding asylum seeker children likened to abuse


“The issues in relation to unaccompanied minors are really problematic here” … Sarah Hanson-Young. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen DETENTION of asylum seeker children was so damaging it should be considered child abuse, a parliamentary inquiry has been told. Federal politicians sitting in Darwin heard of severe mental health problems among young immigration detainees in the Northern […]