#Nauru: asylum seekers needing medical care to be flown to PNG, not Australia
Exclusive: an internal document obtained by Guardian Australia says detainees referred for further treatment will be sent to a hospital in Papua New Guinea
Australian asylum resettlement policy ’a disaster’ - Human Rights Watch
The Australian government’s policy of resettling asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea has been “a disaster”, a human rights group has claimed.
A report by Human Rights Watch said more than 850 asylum seekers were being detained, seemingly indefinitely.
The government has rejected the criticism, saying off-shore resettlement has stemmed the flow of refugees arriving by boat.
Jon Donnison reports from Sydney.
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-33557905
#Australie #asile #migration #Manus_island #réfugiés #Papoue_Nouvelle-guinée
Australia/Papua New Guinea: The Pacific Non-Solution
(Sydney) – More than 850 asylum seekers and 87 refugees are detained indefinitely in poor conditions on Manus Island two years after Australia announced it would process and resettle “boat people” in Papua New Guinea (PNG), Human Rights Watch and the Human Rights Law Centre said today.
▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/07/15/australia/papua-new-guinea-pacific-non-solution
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