Public health ethics: Asylum seekers and the case for political action

Bioethics

Volumn 17, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 487-503

  McNeill, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUSE; AUSTRALIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; ETHICS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; IMMIGRATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; POLICY; POLITICS; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECOGNITION; REFUGEE; WAR AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES;

EID: 0242289464     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8519.00363     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (36)

1. T. Morton. Worse Than Prisons? Managing Detention Centres. Background Briefing. ABC National Radio Program 6 October, 2002. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mlks/bbing/stories/s697195.htm (accessed on 2nd March 2003).
2. Relevant conventions include the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 14 states that: 'Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.' Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights states that: 'No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.' Article 10 specifies that: 'All persons deprived of their liberty shall be treated with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person.' Article 13 requires that: An alien lawfully in the territory of a State Party to the present Covenant may be expelled there from only in pursuance of a decision reached in accordance with law and shall, except where compelling reasons of national security otherwise require, be allowed to submit the reasons against his expulsion and to have his case reviewed by, and be represented for the purpose before, the competent authority or a person or persons especially designated by the competent authority.' Also relevant is the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
3. P.N. Bhagwati. 2002. Human Rights and Immigration Detention in Australia. Report of Justice P.N. Bhagwati, Regional Advisor for Asia and the Pacific of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Mission to Australia 24 May to 2 June 2002. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/31/1027926913916. html (accessed on 14 September, 2002).
4. P. Ruddock. 2002. Government Rejects the Report of the UN Human Rights Commissioner's Envoy into Human Rights and Immigration Detention. Minister for Immigration Philip Ruddock MP, Joint Media Release with Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Downer, The Attorney-General, Daryl Williams. http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/media_releases/media02/r02071.htm (accessed on 14 September, 2002).
5. P. Ruddock. Asylum Seekers and Health Care. Med J Aust 2002; 176: 85.
6. M. Enfield. 2001. Wake up Australia, The New World Order: The Human Dimension. http://www.chilout.org/11e.htm (accessed on 15 September, 2002).
7. Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Media Release. 6 May 2002. Professional Alliance for the Health of Asylum Seekers & Their Children: http://www.racp.edu.au/hpu/policy/asylumseekers/reform_mand.htm (accessed on 15 September, 2002); and Professional Alliance for the Health of Asylum Seekers and their Children: http://www.racp.edu.au/hpu/policy/asylumseekers/alliance. htm (accessed on 15 September, 2002).
8. Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Media Release. 6 May 2002. Professional Alliance for the Health of Asylum Seekers & Their Children: http://www.racp.edu.au/hpu/policy/asylumseekers/reform_mand.htm (accessed on 15 September, 2002); and Professional Alliance for the Health of Asylum Seekers and their Children: http://www.racp.edu.au/hpu/policy/asylumseekers/alliance. htm (accessed on 15 September, 2002).
9. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. 2002. National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention. http://www.humanrights.gov.au/media_releases/2002/59_02.html (accessed on 15 September, 2002).
10. Children out of Detention. http://www.chilout.org/index.htm (accessed on 15 September, 2002). Also transcript of speech by Nurse Moira-Jane, ChilOut Information Night, 3rd June 2002: http://www.chilout.org/53e.htm (accessed on 15 September, 2002).
11. Children out of Detention. http://www.chilout.org/index.htm (accessed on 15 September, 2002). Also transcript of speech by Nurse Moira-Jane, ChilOut Information Night, 3rd June 2002: http://www.chilout.org/53e.htm (accessed on 15 September, 2002).
12. M.F. Harris & B. Telfer. The Health Needs of Asylum Seekers Living in the Community. Med J Aust 2001; 175: 589-592.
13. A. Sultan & K. O'Sullivan. Psychological Disturbances in Asylum Seekers held in Long-term Detention: A Participant-observer Account. Med J Aust 2001; 175: 593-596.
14. Z. Steel & D.M. Silove. The Mental Health Implications of Detaining Asylum Seekers. Med J Aust 2001; 175: 596-599.
15. K. King & P. Vodicka. Screening for Conditions of Public-health Importance in People arriving by Boat without Authority. Med J Aust 2001; 175: 600-602. D. Silove, Z. Steel & C. Watters. Policies of Deterrence and the Dental Health of Asylum Seekers. JAMA 2000; 284: 604-610. A. Burnett & M. Peel. Health Needs of Asylum Seekers and Refugees. BMJ 2001; 322: 544-547.
16. K. King & P. Vodicka. Screening for Conditions of Public-health Importance in People arriving by Boat without Authority. Med J Aust 2001; 175: 600-602. D. Silove, Z. Steel & C. Watters. Policies of Deterrence and the Dental Health of Asylum Seekers. JAMA 2000; 284: 604-610. A. Burnett & M. Peel. Health Needs of Asylum Seekers and Refugees. BMJ 2001; 322: 544-547.
17. K. King & P. Vodicka. Screening for Conditions of Public-health Importance in People arriving by Boat without Authority. Med J Aust 2001; 175: 600-602. D. Silove, Z. Steel & C. Watters. Policies of Deterrence and the Dental Health of Asylum Seekers. JAMA 2000; 284: 604-610. A. Burnett & M. Peel. Health Needs of Asylum Seekers and Refugees. BMJ 2001; 322: 544-547.
18. M. Smith. Asylum Seekers in Australia. Med J Aust 2001; 175: 587-589.
19. G. Mooney. Public Health, Political Morality and Compassion. Aust and NZ J of Pub Health 2002; 26: 201-202.
20. American Public Health Association. 2002. Writing a Public Health Code of Ethics. http://www.apha.org/codeofethics/background.html (accessed on 8 September, 2002).
21. D. Callahan & B. Jennings. Ethics and Public Health: Forging a Strong Relationship. American Journal of Public Health 2002; 92: 169-176.
22. American Public Health Association, op. cit. note 16.
23. Callahan & Jennings, op. cit. note 17.
24. Jürgen Habermas. 1971. Knowledge and Human Interests. Translated by J. Shapiro. Boston. Beacon Press.
25. Jürgen Habermas. 1970. Toward a Rational Society. Translated by J. Shapiro. Boston. Beacon Press.
26. Callahan & Jennings, op. cit. note 17.
27. J. Mann. Medicine and Public Health, Ethics and Human Rights. The Hastings Center Report 1997; 27: 6-13.
28. Bhagwati, op. cit. note 3.
29. Callahan & Jennings, op. cit. note 17.
30. American Public Health Association, op. cit. note 16.
31. Callahan & Jennings, op. cit. note 17.
32. I b i d.
33. I b i d.
34. American Public Health Association, op. cit. note 16.
35. D. Robertson, R. Beddell & J. Lavery. What Kind of Evidence do We need to Jusfify Humanitarian Medical Aid? The Lancet 2002; 360: 330-333.
36. Children out of Detention, op. cit. note 9.