After a United Nations working group visit, African Australian mothers are calling for changes to government policies affecting their young people.
Ms Majak said her own son was being indefinitely detained in Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre.
"They just took him without information. They did not inform me. They did not tell me where they took him." The UN working group found there was a lack of awareness in government bodies about the youth mental health crisis impacting African communities in Australia. "We saw adolescents saying, 'I'm tired of going to funerals of my South Sudanese friends'," she said.
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