Paediatrics & Child Health · 2011 · 54 citations · 8 references
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The arrest, detention, imprisonment of a child shall be...used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time. -United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child Last night I couldn't sleep. I was worrying about [what the] judge [would say]. I said to [my daughters] "when we're free for us it will be like New Year's". -Asylum-seeking mother held in detention in Canada with her daughters (three and 11 years of age)
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Cécile Rousseau, Marie-Claire Rufagari, Déogratias Bagilishya et al. · Social Science & Medicine · 2004 · 171 citations
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