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Immigration Detention

APRRN & IDC Press Release: Children do not belong in detention! Global report and campaign to end immigration detention of children launched at UN Human Rights Council

21 March 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bangkok, March 21, 2012 Children do not belong in detention! Global report and campaign to end immigration detention of children launched at UN Human Rights Council Every day, around the world, tens of thousands of children, many of them unaccompanied minors, are deprived of their freedom and are locked up simply because [...]

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Member news – Call for support: Global campaign to end the immigration detention of children

3 February 2012

Call for support: Global campaign to end the immigration detention of children The International Detention Coalition (IDC) will launch a global campaign to end the immigration detention of children at the UN Human Rights Council in March this year as well as in a number of countries. IDC needs your support to build and put [...]

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Thailand: Stateless family released from Immigration Detention Centre

27 January 2012

Bangkok, January 27, 2012 On January 27, two stateless children and their family were released from the Immigration Detention Centre (IDC) in Bangkok after having been detained for more than 1 year and 6 months. The children and their family arrived in Thailand to seek asylum in June, 2008, but they were arrested and detained [...]

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Press release: NGOs urge Asia Pacific governments to end the immigration detention of children

25 November 2011

Regional meeting in Malaysia address concerns about the growing use of immigration detention and the need for alternatives to detention in Asia Pacific Kuala Lumpur, 25th November 2011 Fifty non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from 18 countries met on Thursday and Friday to address the growing problem of immigration detention in the Asia Pacific region. Increasingly countries [...]

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Sub-Regional Symposium on Refugee Protection in East Asia

23 April 2010

DATE: April 28, 2010 (Wed) 10:00 ~ 17:00 Location: Seoul, Republic of Korea Venue: International Conference Hall, Gwangbok Hall, Yonsei University Sinchon Campus Theme: Refugee Protection in East Asia and the Role of Civil Society Background Recently, there have been some positive developments in the asylum field in the Asia Pacific Region. In 2008, the [...]

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