Health
Doctors raise serious concern over standard of mental health care at UK immigration centers
Leading doctors today raise serious concern over the standard of mental health care at UK immigration removal centers.
Nov 11, 2014
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Study finds specialist support is lacking for LGBT asylum seekers
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) asylum seekers – including those living with HIV – face a lack of specialist support and services in the UK, according to a study by the University of Liverpool.
Nov 7, 2014
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Pediatrics
Paediatricians say mandatory detention is child abuse
More than 80% of Australian paediatricians believe mandatory detention of asylum seeker children constitutes child abuse, according to survey results published today in the Medical Journal of Australia.
Oct 6, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Woman tested for Ebola in Scotland
A woman who fell ill at an immigration facility centre in Scotland is being tested for the Ebola virus, health officials said Friday.
Aug 15, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Detention harms even the strongest
Even the most resilient asylum seekers who spend more than six months in detention risk mental illness, new research has found.
Jul 26, 2013
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Genetics
Mass DNA sampling convicts Dutchman of 1999 rape-murder
Mass DNA sampling led to the jailing Friday of a father-of-two for the shocking rape and murder of a teenaged girl in a rural part of the Netherlands 14 years ago.
Apr 19, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Christmas Island detention centre sees spike in demand for mental health services
The "prison-like" immigration detention facilities on Christmas Island are not appropriate for asylum seekers, and there has been a rise in the demand for mental health services at the facility, according to a damning report ...
Dec 13, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Call to free vulnerable from offshore detention
(Medical Xpress)—High rates of self-harm and mental distress among asylum seekers in long-term detention has renewed calls for the review of Australia's offshore processing.
Dec 10, 2012
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Health
Researcher presents case against child detention and family separation
A University of Huddersfield researcher attended an important event at the United Nations, Switzerland, to make the case for global policy changes so that children subject to immigration processes are never locked up by immigration ...
Nov 27, 2012
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