UN watchdog faults Australia for treatment of migrants on Nauru
Under a hard-line policy introduced more than a decade ago, Australia has sent thousands of migrants attempting to reach the ...
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Australia violated rights of asylum seekers held in Nauru, UN watchdog says
The Australian government violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, many of them minors, on the remote Pacific island of Nauru, even after they were granted refugee status ...
Damning call on Nauru asylum seekers
Australia has been accused of trying to “escape its human rights responsibility” after a UN committee found it was ...
Australia asked to pay compensation for violating rights of asylum seekers in Nauru camps
UN watchdog finds refugees and asylum seekers suffered deterioration of physical and mental health in offshore detention ...
Labor to massively increase surveillance and flights to Nauru amid increase in boat arrivals
Labor will vastly increase aerial surveillance of the nation’s coasts and scale up its capacity for charter flights to Nauru, ...
The UN says Australia violated human rights law, but it’s unlikely to change the way we treat refugees
The UN Human Rights Committee found 24 young detainees on Nauru experienced “cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment”. But are ...
Australia violated human rights treaty with Nauru detainees, UN committee finds
A UN committee finds Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, including minors, on ...
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Nauru detention centre must be urgently evacuated in light of UN ruling
After years of calling for an end to successive Australian governments' cruel offshore processing regime, Amnesty ...
UN watchdog says Australia violated asylum seekers' rights
Australia violated the rights of asylum seekers arbitrarily detained on the island of Nauru, a UN watchdog ruled Thursday, in ...
Australia says it doesn't control Nauru detention centre, as UN says it violated human rights
The UN Human Rights Committee has asked Australia to provide compensation to the victims and to ensure similar violations do ...
Australia violated refugees' rights in offshore detention centre, says UN
A U.N. committee found that Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, including minors ...
Australia responsible for Nauru detainees - UN Human Rights Committee
Two decisions from the UN Human Rights Committee say Australia remained responsible for the detention of asylum seekers in ...