To mark Refugee Week, advocacy group Mums4Refugees is sending a powerful message to the community through a poster blitz of public toilets across the country.
Mums from the over 30,000 strong online community will be taking to public toilets everywhere – shopping centres, libraries, gyms, workplaces, airports, MP offices – to ensure as many people as possible see the confronting posters which feature the staring eyes of Immigration Minister Peter Dutton above messages such as ‘Don’t like being stared at? There are no doors on toilets or showers in Nauru…’
The constant lack of privacy and voyeurism experienced daily by women held in Nauru is the theme of the posters, referencing findings from the independent Moss Report on conditions in detention at Nauru, including women being told to expose their bodies in exchange for access to longer showers and rape threats.
“The idea of someone watching you on the toilet is very confronting to most of us,” said Dulce Munoz, Co-Convener for Mums4Refugees.
“That’s the point of this campaign – to really drive home what it feels like to have your privacy violated and get people thinking about what it must be like for women held in Nauru who put up with inhumane conditions and treatment everyday.”
“This Refugee Week, Mum’s4Refugees is urging the public to get talking, take action and demand the government closes inhumane offshore refugee camps.”
Coming to a toilet door near you…
Jane Salmon
