Family Detention to Freedom
Academics and civil society groups organised a panel and reception to showcase recent reports on child and family detention in the U.S. and to introduce the Global Campaign to End Child Immigration Detention. The reception began with a screening of The Invisible Picture Show, a Google Digital One Media Award-winning animated documentary featuring the stories of children detained in the US, Australia, South Africa and Greece. An expert panel then discussed reports highlighting concerns regarding the return to use of family detention centres in the US despite clear evidence that immigration detention poses serious, and potentially lifelong, physical, mental and developmental harms to children. Even very limited periods of detention in relatively humane conditions have been found to damage children’s psychological health and development.
Académicos y grupos de la sociedad civl organizaron un panel de expertos y recepción para presentar informes recientes sobre la detención de familias en EUA y lanzar su participación en la Campaña Global ¡Alto a la Detención de Niñ@s Migrantes! El evento empezó con la proyección del Invisible Picture Show, documental animado premiado por Google Digital One Media que comparte las historias de niños, niñas y adolescentes migrantes en detención en EUA, Australia, Sudáfrica y Grecias. Después, el panel conversaba sobre el regreso a la práctica preocupante de detención de familias migrantes en EUA; eso a pesar de la evidencia que la detención afecta de manera negativa el desarrollo mental, físico y social de los niños. Hasta periodos cortos de detención en condiciones humanas tienen efectos dañinos en la saludo y el desarrollo de los niños.
Ver video completo del evento aquí (en inglés)
Family Detention Reports and Materials/ Informes y Materiales sobre la Detención de Familias Migrantes
Prezi
Speakers/Panelistas
Benjamin Lewis, International Detention Coalition and Inter-Agency Working Group to End Immigration Detention of Children (IAWG)
Vanessa Martinez, International Detention Coalition
Galya Ruffer, Center for Forced Migration Studies (CFMS), Buffett Center, Northwestern University
Judy Greene, Justice Strategies
Denise Gilman, The University of Texas School of Law Immigration Clinic
Aurea Martinez, Detention Watch Network
Brittney Nystrom, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
Katharina Obser, Women’s Refugee Commission
Sponsored by /Apoyado por:
American Civil Liberties Union
Center for Forced Migration Studies (CFMS), Buffett Center, Northwestern University
Detention Watch Network
Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute
Global Campaign to End Immigration Detention of Children
Grassroots Leadership
Human Rights Watch
International Detention Coalition
International Migrants Bill of Rights Initiative
Justice Strategies
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
The University of Texas School of Law Immigration Clinic
Women’s Refugee Commission