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Australia causing refugees ‘severe and lasting harm’
SYDNEY (Reuters) Australia poor treatment of refugees in offshore detention camps is and is causing lasting damage to refugees and to Australia reputation as a canada goose coats on sale rights respecting country, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.
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Conditions in the camps are abusive and detainees endure violence, threats and harassment Human Rights Watch said in the Australian chapter of its annual global report.
Under Australian rules, anyone intercepted canada goose coats while trying to reach the country by boat is sent for processing to camps in buy canada goose jacket the Pacific Island nation of Nauru canada goose store and at Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea (PNG). They are never eligible to be resettled in Australia.
A spokeswoman canada goose for the Department of Immigration, asked about the report before its release, declined to comment but canada goose uk outlet referred to earlier department assertions that canadian goose jacket conditions at the camps were adequate and were Canada Goose sale the Canada Goose Online responsibility of Nauru canada goose uk shop and PNG.
Those governments did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Australia said in November it had agreed with the United States to resettle some of the refugees in the Nauru and PNG camps, in return for Australia taking Canada Goose Parka refugees from Central America. administration would proceed with the deal.
The arrangement offered solution in any case, Human Rights Watch said, adding Australia should close Canada Goose online the camps and better protect refugees.
Australia canada goose factory sale tough buy canada https://www.canadagooseoutleta.com goose jacket cheap policy has drawn cheap canada goose uk strong criticism from the United Nations and other international rights organisations amid a global debate on how to manage huge numbers of asylum seekers displaced by conflict.
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Successive Australian governments have supported the policy, which they say is needed to stop people drowning at sea during dangerous boat journeys.
More than 1,990 asylum seekers have drowned on voyages to Australia since January canada goose clearance sale 2000, according to Monash University Australian Border Deaths Database.
More than a third of the uk canada goose deaths occurred between 2007 and canada goose black friday sale 2012, when Australia suspended its offshore detention programme, including an accident in 2010 when 50 people were killed when their boat was thrown onto rocks at Christmas Island.
That accident swung Canada Goose Coats On Sale political and public opinion behind the offshore detention policy, which has uk canada goose outlet enjoyed bipartisan and public support in Australia.
Human Rights Watch also criticised PNG for police brutality, after officers opened fire on student protesters cheap Canada Goose in June.
PNG was also of the most dangerous places in best Canada Goose the world to be a woman and the government had failed to address corruption, Human Rights Watch added.
Australia and PNG agreed to close the Manus Island camp in August, but gave no date and it remains open. It held 871 people and the Nauru camp 383 people, according to the most recent statistics released by Australia in November.