June 2011

By Kaitlin Bakker, UNICEF Australia Young Ambassador
Did you know that indigenous kids are 28 times more likely to be imprisoned than other children in Australia?
It’s a shocking statistic that belies the common belief that Australia is the land of the fair go.
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By Adam Baidawi, UNICEF Australia Young Ambassador
Every so often, I’ll stay up ‘til 4 or 5am. Being a freelance writer—tackling deadlines and annoying, sudden bursts of inspiration—this isn’t wholly surprising. But what kept me up the other night was Go Back To Where You Came From. Read more...

By Tom Morrison, UNICEF Australia Young Ambassador
Every four years the UN Human Rights council conducts what’s known as a "Universal Periodic Review” of every country, and this time Australia’s drawn the lucky card. The review is essentially a report card, detailing what’s going well and what needs to be improved. So how did Australia do? Not so well... Read more...

By Lauren King, UNICEF Australia Communications Intern
By the end 2010, there were 43.7 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, the highest number in 15 years. Of these, 15.4 million were refugees, 837,500 asylum-seekers and 27.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs). Read more...

By Miriam Cox, UNICEF Advocacy Intern
It seems to have been a stroke of political luck for the Gillard government, as the kafuffle over leaked documents about Australia’s asylum seeker swap plans with Malaysia, was usurped by the drama of live cattle being exported to meet their grizzly ends in Indonesian abattoirs. Read more...