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Aussie child refugee detentions illegal. (Child & Family).


CANBERRA -- The detention of hundreds of child asylum seekers asylum seeker asylum ndemandeur/euse d'asile  by the Australian. government was set back by a Family Court ruling which declared the detentions illegal. The Family Court based its decision the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, often referred to as CRC or UNCRC, is an international convention setting out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of children.  to protect minors

Civil rights and child welfare groups have called for the immediate release of children in the detention centres detention centre
Noun

a place where young people may be detained for short periods of time by order of a court

Noun 1. detention centre
. The government intends to appeal the Family Court's ruling.
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Date:Jul 14, 2003
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