Serco Ruins Christmas for Children in Detention

What kind of miserable f***s would prevent children from being given gifts at Christmas-time? What kind of power-crazed c*** would forbid children from having coloured crayons or coloured pencils outside of formal classes?

DASSAN Press Release: Serco Ruins Christmas for Children in Detention
Refugee Rights Action Network
5 January 2012.
http://rran.org/blog/2012/01/dassan-press-release-serco-ruins-christmas-for-children-in-detention/

Serco drops ban on coloured pencils and crayons for asylum-seeker children
by Kirsty Needham
Sydney Morning Herald.
January 7, 2012.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/serco-drops-ban-on-coloured-pencils-and-crayons-for-asylumseeker-children-20120106-1pogh.html#ixzz1ilC5Sacc

Serco drops ban on coloured pencils and crayons for asylum-seeker children
Refugee Rights Action Network
7 January 2012.
http://rran.org/blog/2012/01/serco-drops-ban-on-coloured-pencils-and-crayons-for-asylum-seeker-children/

A musical interlude

I love the sound of young people singing!

Refugee Rights Action Network protest at Perth immigration detention centre, June 2011.

June 20th World Refugee Day

"Each year the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) celebrates World Refugee Day on 20 June. The global theme for World Refugee Day in 2011 is “1 refugee without hope is too many.”"

UNHCR
World Refugee Day 2011
http://www.unhcr.org.au/unhcr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=216&Itemid=95

Protest rallies are planned to mark this occasion in cities around Australia on various dates:

Socialist Alternative
World Refugee Day rallies
http://www.sa.org.au/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=6888:world-refugee-day-rallies&Itemid=396