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Refugees

• What is it like to be a doctor in immigration detention centres?

  16 Sep 2014: Ailene Chan and Ian Kerridge: As a GP who worked on Nauru and Christmas Island, I’ve seen men with their lips sewn closed, women drinking from bottles of shampoo and children with weeping sores

• We wouldn't need whistleblowers' bravery if Morrison did his job properly

  

  20 Aug 2014: Elizabeth O’Shea: Without whistelblowers working in immigration centers, we would not know the devastating conditions that refugees, including children, suffer under

• The bishops are right – Britain must offer refuge to Iraqis fleeing Isis

  

  19 Aug 2014: Andrew Brown: Our invasion of Iraq contributed to the current catastrophe, so simple restitution demands that we welcome refugees who make it here

• It’s no longer only Christians who shape UK foreign policy

  

  18 Aug 2014: Mary Dejevsky: Britain is a multicultural nation and its minority communities are having an increasing influence on its voice in the world

• Glasgow's offer of sanctuary gives the rest of Scotland a lesson in compassion

  

  16 Aug 2014:

  Kevin McKenna: The first city in the world to stand beside Nelson Mandela has long opened its doors to victims of the world's worst conflicts

• On Iraq, the public’s conscience stirs but MPs are impotent

  

  12 Aug 2014: Rafael Behr: With Westminster struggling for relevance in a globalised world, will anyone listen to an Iraq debate in parliament?

• Asylum: my 157 clients' ordeal highlights Scott Morrison's hypocrisy

  

  8 Aug 2014: George Newhouse: Secret detention at sea. A plan to dump families in lifeboats. A secret overnight plane transfer. Whatever your views around refugee policy, this isn’t an open and fair government

• Why have we ignored the hard-learned lessons of the first world war?

  

  1 Aug 2014: Pat Barker: War does not end on the battlefield. Poems by traumatised children in Syria are a reminder that the horror will haunt them forever

• Europe must give Syrian refugees a home

  

  22 Jul 2014: António Guterres: EU countries have to recognise this crisis will not go away and offer Syrian asylum seekers legal, humane routes into Europe

• First Dog on the Moon on ... World Cup ethics

  

  14 Jul 2014:

  Give me soccer or give me death, says First Dog on the Moon. But it might get out of hand ...

• There's no evidence to prove asylum seeker advocates 'coach' how to self harm – because we don't

  

  14 Jul 2014: Nick Riemer: Unsubstantiated allegations that refugee advocates 'coach' asylum seekers to self harm are a risible attempt to reinforce the warped premises of Australia's refugee debate

• Obama's new plan for detained migrant children militarizes immigration policy

  

  9 Jul 2014: Michelle Chen: Mass deportation will never address the underlying human rights crisis unfolding south of the US-Mexico border

• South Sudan has imploded into a crisis that is manmade, so don't you forget it

  

  9 Jul 2014: David Miliband: Three years into independence, millions are short on food and hundreds of thousands are afraid to go home. The youngest country on Earth needs us now more than ever

• Asylum secrecy on the high seas is designed to foil the enemy within – the law

  

  9 Jul 2014: David Marr: The harder it is to know what’s happening on the Indian Ocean, the tougher it is for lawyers to get traction. This government isn't a pioneer

• An encounter with Greece's migrant prisoners, and the men who jail them

  

  27 Jun 2014: Antony Loewenstein: Greece's immigration detention centres are bursting at the seams; many migrants are locked up indefinitely. Golden Dawn, the country's far right party, couldn't be happier

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