- Efforts to move a 12-year-old refugee boy on hunger strike on Nauru to a hospital in Australia failed at the weekend, after the Australian Border Force refused to allow his stepfather to travel with him. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/20/nauru-hunger-strike-border-force-abandons-attempts-to-move-child-to-australia 10 comments worldnews
Linking pages
- Nauru self-harm 'contagion' as 12-year-old refugee tries to set herself alight | Australian immigration and asylum | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/23/nauru-self-harm-contagion-as-12-year-old-refugee-tries-to-set-herself-alight 7 comments
- A Dark History of the World’s Smallest Island Nation | The MIT Press Reader https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/dark-history-nauru/ 3 comments