FAMILIES SEEK UN HELP OVER AUSTRALIA’S NOTORIOUS REFUGEE POLICIES
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For nearly a decade, Australia’s notorious hardline asylum regime has forcibly separated refugee families. But a group of refugees are now challenging the practice of family separation through the United Nations.
Maya*, who is 35 years old, and her mother and siblings fled Iran in 2012, arriving in Australia a year later after an arduous journey through Malaysia and Indonesia.
Maya said she was forced to flee her homeland because she had been stalked and threatened with an acid attack by a government sympathiser.