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"The United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) said it was "Ý'greatly concerned about the recent public vilification of asylum seekers' and urged governments to show leadership in providing accurate and up-to-date information on asylum seekers and promoting a public debate 'based on facts rather than negative stereotyping.'
The High Commissioner's statement follows two weeks of tense protests at the Woomera detention centre, including a hunger strike and threats of self-mutilation by the detainees."
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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.
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