The UN says Australia violated human rights law, but it’s unlikely to change the way we treat refugees
- Written by Sarah Moulds, Associate Professor in Law, University of South Australia
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has ruled that Australia breached international human rights law by detaining a group of young asylum seekers in immigration detention in Nauru.
The committee found the asylum seekers were subject to prison-like conditions, potentially indefinitely, and without knowing what was going to happen to them in...
