The UN this week expressed concern that Australia's policy of transferring asylum seekers to off-shore detention facilities, contravenes international human rights law in letter and spirit.
Expressing concern about the Australian High Court's decision on the deportation the spokesperson for the High Commissioner on Human Rights, Rupert Colville, said, “broader aspects of Australia’s policy on the treatment of migrants and asylum seekers arriving without prior authorisation, significantly contravenes the letter and spirit of international human rights law.”
"We believe that transferring these 267 individuals to Nauru could further damage their physical and mental health, and would put Australia at risk of breaching its obligation not to return any person to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment under the Convention against Torture,” Mr Colville added.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child this week warned Australia that the High Court ruling allowing child asylum seekers to be transferred to off-shore detention facilities puts the child at great risk.
“This decision by the High Court greatly concerns us as these children and their families face a great risk in being sent to a place that cannot be considered safe nor adequate,” the chair of the committee, Benyam Mezmur said in a statement.
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Expressing concern about the Australian High Court's decision on the deportation the spokesperson for the High Commissioner on Human Rights, Rupert Colville, said, “broader aspects of Australia’s policy on the treatment of migrants and asylum seekers arriving without prior authorisation, significantly contravenes the letter and spirit of international human rights law.”
"We believe that transferring these 267 individuals to Nauru could further damage their physical and mental health, and would put Australia at risk of breaching its obligation not to return any person to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment under the Convention against Torture,” Mr Colville added.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child this week warned Australia that the High Court ruling allowing child asylum seekers to be transferred to off-shore detention facilities puts the child at great risk.
“This decision by the High Court greatly concerns us as these children and their families face a great risk in being sent to a place that cannot be considered safe nor adequate,” the chair of the committee, Benyam Mezmur said in a statement.
See more here.
Related article: Tamil asylum seeker urges not be returned to Nauru (02 Feb 2016)