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“What we’re seeing is a reckless and unprecedented expansion of a system that is punitive, harmful and costly,” said Katharina Obser of the Women’s Refugee Commission. “The U.S. government is…
…the Women’s Refugee Commission and a leading expert on immigration detention, told Mother Jones. “You’re throwing hundreds—thousands—more children into this system. You’ve actually separated them from a parent and then you give them to…
…violence in their home countries, says Michelle Brané, director of the migrant rights and justice program at the Women’s Refugee Commission. “Let’s not forget,” she tells me, “the government separated…
“They sped up reunification procedures that they had in place for years,” said Jennifer Podkul, senior program officer at the Women’s Refugee Commission. Over two dozen children have been severely…
“This is really extreme, it’s nothing like we have seen before,” said Michelle Brané, director of Migrant Rights and Justice at the Women’s Refugee Commission, a New York-based non-governmental organisation…
…on them cannot be allowed to set the standard of care for immigrant children,” said Michelle Brané, director of the Migrant Rights and Justice program at the Women’s Refugee Commission….
…administration, but right now we have a situation where there is abject cruelty, a culture of criminalization, inhumanity and dehumanization,” said Ursela Ojeda, policy adviser for the Women’s Refugee Commission….
“Girls told researchers from the Women’s Refugee Commission that they face sexual violence when they collect firewood. The stoves and briquettes could eliminate some of the threat of sexual assault…
…and fathers, asking for help, begging, ‘please don’t let them take me; please help me, mommy’—really dramatic situations,” says Michelle Brané, director of Migrant Rights & Justice, Women’s Refugee Commission….
“This flies in the face of the refugee convention and our asylum laws and is a fatal blow to the men, women and children fleeing violence and…
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