Australia Under Fire for Separating Refugee Families

The Australian government is facing pressure from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to end its policy of separating refugee families, which the U.N. says has devastating psychological consequences. Australia has been separating refugee families since 2013 as a way of deterring people from coming by sea to Australia to claim asylum. Under its so-called policy of "offshore processing and deterrence," asylum-seekers are sent to Nauru or Papua New Guinea and are only...

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