Psychotropic medication is 'pharmaceutical violence' against migrant children and other incarcerated youth throughout the United States. Drug addiction is one consequence.
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New data shows 73 pregnant women were detained for immigration reasons between July 2016 and November 2017.
The UK government presents itself as a pioneer in tackling modern slavery, but it doesn't allow victims to remain legally in the UK. Time is apt for the system to be overhauled.
While the UK does not indefinitely detain children, there are cases where minors are held – and in extreme cases, separated from their parents.
Over 200 children are still in asylum seeker detention within Australia and offshore – so why aren't we more outraged about that?
The experiences of women in Canada's immigration detention system reveal emotional distress, and even violence, before, during and after incarceration.
Why some women detained in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre are on hunger strike.
Several factors play a part when determining what kind of risk high levels of mould exposure can pose to human health.
Even if their partners or children are British, non-European men with precarious immigration status face potentially permanent separations from their families.
BBC Panorama has exposed violence and abuse of detainees at Brook House immigration removal centre.
The Australian government had and has the power to do things necessary to establish and maintain its immigration detention facility on Manus Island, despite detention violating PNG law.
In a free society, it ought never to be lawful for a government to detain people by executive order alone.
Rights and living conditions vary depending where immigrants are detained.
A short history of legal challenges to immigrant detention practices in the U.S. may shed light on what's to come for the new administration.
Recent developments in the US suggest it might be time for Australia to rethink its reliance on private prisons.
From July, doctors will no longer be able to fulfil their ethical and professional obligations to report mistreatment of detainees.
Hunger strikes have swept immigration centres in recent weeks. Is this problem being taken as seriously as it could be?
The news that Hamid Kehazaei, a 24-year-old Iranian asylum seeker detained on Manus Island, has been diagnosed as brain dead following his transfer to the Mater Hospital in Brisbane is a tragedy. That…
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