A Comment in Time: Deconstructing the Discourse around Detention

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    Global Detention Project

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 On 17 December, the GDP’s Rachael Reilly moderated a panel on the advocacy potential of the Committee on Migrant Workers’ General Comment 5 on migrants right to liberty and freedom from arbitrary detention. Panelists at the webinar, which was hosted by Migrant Forum in Asia, included: Alvaro Botero, vice chair of the Committee on Migrant Workers; Akhator Joel Odigie of the African Regional Organization of the International Trade Union Confederation; and Veeca Smith Uka, a Nigerian refugee and community organizer based in Yorkshire. 
* Visit the website of Migrant Forum in Asia.