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Medact : "Hold the UK Government to account on the right to health" - 13/04/07 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Emma Ginn   
In 2002, the UK government submitted a report to the United Nations Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), describing how it had adhered to its obligations under the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
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Asylum seeker death in Dover from 'natural causes' - 07/07/05 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Emma Ginn   
The family of 40-year-old Kurdish asylum seeker, Elmas Ozmico, have expressed concerns at a recent inquest verdict into her death that found that she died of natural causes.
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New Statesman : "How we treat the desperate" - 19/07/07 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Emma Ginn   
Some of the world's most vulnerable and abused women end up in the Yarl's Wood Detention Centre awaiting deportation.
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Britain's inhumane shame - 12/07/07 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Emma Ginn   

The Medical Justice network protects asylum seekers at detention centres, many of whom experience abuse on a frightening scale.

Melanie McFadyean, 12th July 2007, Guardian Unlimited
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Detention of refugees - 04/02/06 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Emma Ginn   
04/02/06 - Detention of refugees
BMJ  2006;332:251-252 (4 February), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7536.251
"Australia has given up mandatory detention because it damages detainees' mental health"
"…detainees, particularly those held for long periods, suffer from profound hopelessness, despair, and suicidal urges…"
 
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