Children of asylum seekers - Early Childhood Australia

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Child Development, Family, Health, and Education Research.

Children of asylum seekers

Summary - HREOC report of inquiry into children in detention centres
Summary guide to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's (HREOC) report of the inquiry into children in detention centres (76 pages). Australia

Early Childhood Australia - Position statement on children in detention centre
Australia is a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Convention says that holding children in detention shall be used as a measure of last resort and only for the shortest time possible. Australia

Submission from the SA Coalition for Refugee Children
Submission to National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention from the SA Coalition for Refugee Children. Part 2 of that submission was written by the South Australian Branch of Early Childhood Australia and focused on the care and education of these children. Australia

Children in detention - an Australian issue
Speech about children held in Australian detention centres made by the President of Early Childhood Australia at the 2002 World Forum. Australia

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