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  • Latest Deaths in Detention: Mohammed Asif Atay and Meqdad Hussein

    Mohammed Asif Atay and Meqdad Hussein are the latest asylum seekers to die in Australian migration detention centres.  Both were young men.  Mohammed was aged 19.  Meqdad was aged 20.  Both were Hazara asylum seekers from Afghanistan.  Both committed suicide.  Mohammed had been detained for 10 months in the Curtin detention centre in South Australia.  He had developed depression in the lead up to taking his own life.  His death was reported on 29 March 2011.  Meqdad was detained at the Scherger detention centre in North Queensland.   Meqdad had recognised as a genuine refugee two or three months before his death.  He lost hope when the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation issued an adverse security…

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  • Angelina Jolie and the Refugee Warehouses

    What makes someone like Angelina Jolie take an interest in the lives of refugees?  What makes anyone take interest?   In this video Angelina visits refugees in Afghanistan.  It’s clear that there is no “foreignness” in how she relates to them.  She sees them as people who are suffering, and to whom we should respond.

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  • Oppression of Women: Gender Apartheid

    Full equality of men and women has not been achieved anywhere in the world.   What has been achieved has taken a century and a half.  In some parts of the world, women’s rights are so comprehensively denied that comparisons with apartheid are inadequate to capture the depth of deprivation.  

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