Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Forced to choose between Family and Freedom!
From the Guardian:
A United Nations body has taken the “extraordinary” step of calling on Australia to review its domestic laws in a ruling that it had breached multiple international human rights laws.
The ruling coincides with the Australian government being taken to the UN over alleged breaches of international law by indefinitely separating more than 60 members of 14 refugee families on Nauru.
The working group on arbitrary detention, established by the UN Commission on Human Rights in 1991 to report to the Human Rights Council, had examined the case of Edris Cheragi, an Iranian man and Christian convert who sought asylum in Australia.
Read more here
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/family_law/2018/10/forced-to-choose-between-family-and-freedom.html