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immigration detention

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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IDC launches handbook to prevent immigration detention

2 June 2011

The International Detention Coalition from Hub Melbourne on Vimeo. Governments around the world are increasingly using detention as a migration management tool, with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants detained for prolonged periods. However, there are humane and cost effective mechanisms that prevent unnecessary and damaging detention and that ensure detention is only ever used as [...]

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