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Nauru Detainee Children Most Traumatised: Doctor’s Report

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Medical and educational experts who have spent time with asylum seeker children detained by Australia have backed calls for their immediate release. Image: A drawing by a Nauru child detainee. (Supplied)


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By Naomi Selvaratnam, Christie Rivera

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Medical and educational experts who have spent time with asylum seeker children detained by Australia have backed calls for their immediate release. Image: A drawing by a Nauru child detainee. (Supplied)


It follows a report by a medical team led by the Australian Human Rights Commission that found what it describes as alarming evidence about the mental and physical health of children held at the Wickham Point detention facility in Darwin.

 

 

 


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