Suicide attempts and horrifying acts of self-harm are drawing fresh attention to the suffering of refugee children on Nauru, in what is being described as a "mental health crisis". In a photograph released by an Australian activist group, an asylum seeker appeared to …

Inside squalid Australia refugee camp Jump to media player Despite no electricity or running water, people won't leave the Manus Island detention centre. In February 2014 Reza Barati was murdered in the Manus Island detention centre during an attack on asylum seekers by PNG guards. The Howard government established the Manus Island and Nauru centres in 2001 as part of the Pacific Solution. As a Rohingyan refugee fleeing Myanmar’s campaign …

Iranian journalist and refugee Boochani talks about life in detention and the closure of the Manus Island refugee camp.

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There are rising tensions in Manus between the local population and the transplanted refugee one. ( ABC News ) A plane with 35 men on board touched down in Port Moresby on Thursday from Manus Island. The system the Australian government has designed for … Papua New Guinea’s Police Storm Manus Island Refugee Camp. The province’s only city, Lorengau, is small, … Introduction. The Australian government has abandoned hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers, leaving them in a situation that more closely resembles punishment instead of protection in Papua New … Australian immigration detention facilities comprise a number of different facilities throughout Manus – the story so far. As a Rohingyan refugee fleeing Myanmar’s campaign of genocide, Jaivet found himself imprisoned on the remote island near Papua New Guinea for three and a half years.

Jaivet Ealom is the only known person to have ever escaped the notoriously brutal Australian-run refugee detention center on Manus Island. Manus Island: Australia abandons refugees to a life of uncertainty and peril. This joint report, in partnership with Amnesty International, tells the story of the men who have been sent by Australia to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG), and what has happened to them after they were forcibly removed from the ‘regional processing centre’ on Manus Island one year ago.. Executive summary. There has been mounting pressure from some on Manus to end refugee processing in the province. Papua New Guinea’s notorious mobile squad – a paramilitary police unit – has been deployed around a Manus Island refugee camp amid a dramatic rise in … There are around 531 refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island as of May 2019. Jaivet Ealom is the only known person to have ever escaped the notoriously brutal Australian-run refugee detention center on Manus Island. Amnesty International described the situation on Manus Island as “tantamount to torture”, after visiting the centre in November 2013. 10 Nov 17 Share this with Facebook