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Aug 2003 Children in Immigration Detention |
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In 2002 Early Childhood Australia released a policy statement calling for, amongst other things, the release of all children from Australia's on and offshore immigration detention centers.
Despite a change in Commonwealth Government policy in late 2002 and a recent high court decision stating that the detention of children is illegal, 200 children remain in immigration detention.
They live for extended times in prisonlike conditions denied access to the rights and freedoms set out in the convention on the rights of the child.
Therefore Early Childhood Australia restates it's statement on children in detention to view the full document please see Early Childhood Australia's policy on Children of Asylum Seekers.
For more information on Human Rights visit the HREOC website:
www.hreoc.gov.au
ECA Policy on Children of Asylum Seekers
Children of Asylum Seekers
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Last Updated ( Monday, 29 August 2005 )
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