"Australia’s refugee stance sets ‘alarming global precedent’ Australia is engaging in “unlawful and increasingly punitive” treatment of asylum seekers, an Australian legal group will tell the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.. The HRLC will highlight how asylum seekers are being “subjected to arbitrary, indefinite detention” in inadequate conditions on Nauru and Manus Island based on their mode of arrival, contrary to the Refugee Convention, of which Australia is a signatory." theguardian/world/2013/sep/17/human-rights-group-will-criticise-australia-at-un
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