Australia to Investigate Asylum Seeker Abuse Claims

Australia’s immigration minister has announced an investigation into allegations guards at the Nauru offshore processing center have sexually abused child asylum seekers.  It is also alleged that charity workers have been encouraging children to harm themselves.  Detainees on Nauru continue to protest Australia’s plans to deny them resettlement visas and to send refugees to Cambodia.  Refugee groups claim that female asylum seekers on Nauru have been forced to have sex...

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