As grim five year anniversary for refugee
children looms, Turnbull Government confronted with hard truths at UN
Daniel Webb, Director of Legal Advocacy at
the Human Rights Law Centre, told the Council that 19 July will mark five years
of detention for 134 refugee children languishing indefinitely on Nauru.
"These children have been detained for five long years for fleeing the same atrocities our government comes here and condemns,” Mr Webb told the Council.
“40 of these children have been detained for their entire lives. They are four and five year-old kids who have never experienced a single day of freedom in their lives. The only world they have ever known is inside a mouldy tent, behind a fence, in an island prison,” said Mr Webb.
"These children have been detained for five long years for fleeing the same atrocities our government comes here and condemns,” Mr Webb told the Council.
“40 of these children have been detained for their entire lives. They are four and five year-old kids who have never experienced a single day of freedom in their lives. The only world they have ever known is inside a mouldy tent, behind a fence, in an island prison,” said Mr Webb.
Watch
our @DanielHRLC's
address to the UN Human Rights Council last night about the Turnbull
Government's deliberate destruction of the lives of children - 134 it keeps in
its off-shore refugee camp on Nauru. More info here: https://www.hrlc.org.au/news/2018/6/28/grim-five-year-anniversary-for-refugee-children-looms …
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