The men held by the Australian government in offshore processing centers and temporary transit centers in Papua New Guinea and Nauru are not afforded adequate healthcare. The asylum seekers in these centers are not offered proper access to medical attention generally and especially in cases requiring immediate attention, should be […]
Human Rights
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Almost three years after Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court ruled that the detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island was unlawful as it “breached the right to personal liberty” in the Papua New Guinean constitution, asylum seekers are still being treated as prisoners.[1] The Universal Declaration for Human Rights entitles […]
Yasmine Mohammed is an Arab-Canadian and teaches at various universities around Canada. She is a passionate advocate for the rights of women, LGBT individuals, and religious dissidents—particularly in the Middle East. Yasmine is the founder of a non-profit organization called Free Hearts Free Minds, which is specifically designed to assist […]
Elan Journo is a Senior Fellow and Director of Policy Research at the Ayn Rand Institute (“ARI”). Journo regularly writes and speaks for ARI; he is a senior editor and regular contributor at ARI’s online publication New Ideal. Journo specializes in the application of ethical egoism to foreign policy. Journo […]
In response to the great influx of refugees seeking asylum in Australia starting in 2009, the Australian government implemented policies to detain asylum seekers in offshore processing centers while their asylum claims were adjudicated. In 2012, Australia returned to previous practices of detaining asylum seekers on Manus Island of Papua […]
Amanda Parker is the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Director at the Ayaan Hirsi Ali Foundation (AHA). Ms. Parker oversees AHA’s women’s rights program. She develops federal and state policy proposals to protect women and girls from harmful social and cultural practices such as child marriage, forced marriage, and female […]
When then Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the zero tolerance policy in the summer of 2018, the federal guidelines that determined how long U.S. officials could detain children also determined that they would have to be separated from their parents.[1] Migrant children are only supposed to be held in detention […]