UN attacks Canberra for asylum seekers' limbo

The UN is increasingly concerned about the unresolved status of more than 5700 people being held in detention in Australia and Nauru. Photo: Angela Wylie

THE United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has sharply criticised the federal government for leaving in limbo the asylum seekers who have arrived since its August 13 announcement of offshore processing.

It said it was increasingly concerned about the unresolved status of these more than 5700 people being held in detention in Australia and Nauru.

byminori stranieri non accompagnati

in deportation, detention, unaccompanied minors

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UN attacks Canberra for asylum seekers' limbo

The UN is increasingly concerned about the unresolved status of more than 5700 people being held in detention in Australia and Nauru.  Ph...

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Deportation of Afghan children would violate UN conventions

Rejected teenaged asylum seekers could be sent to a relocation centre in Kabul In violation of several UN conventions

The government would send Afghan children home to the unstable situation in Kabul (Photo: Scanpix)

Denmark's participation in a European project to establish a centre in Kabul to relocate unaccompanied, rejected teenage asylum seekers is being roundly criticised by human rights activists and researchers.

byminori stranieri non accompagnati

in deportation, unaccompanied minor

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Deportation of Afghan children would violate UN conventions

Rejected teenaged asylum seekers could be sent to a relocation centre in Kabul In violation of several UN conventions ...

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