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 […]
Human Rights
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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 […]