After a research visit to Australia's offshore processing centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea on 11-16 November 2013, Amnesty International has published a report that "details how asylum seekers are being held in a prison-like regime, in extremely cramped compounds in stifling heat, while being denied sufficient water and medical help." The report is available here:
"This is breaking people": Human Rights Violations at Australia’s Asylum Seeker Processing Centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (Amnesty International, Dec. 2013) [text]
- See also AI's "The Truth about Manus Island."
Other recent reports evaluating conditions at offshore processing centres on Manus Island and Nauru include (organized in reverse chronological order):
- UNHCR Monitoring Visit to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea: 23 to 25 October 2013 (UNHCR Canberra, Nov. 2013) [text]
- UNHCR Monitoring Visit to the Republic of Nauru: 7 to 9 October 2013 (UNHCR Canberra, Nov. 2013) [text]
- UNHCR Monitoring Visit to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea 11-13 June 2013 (UNHCR Canberra, July 2013) [text]
- UNHCR Mission to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, 15-17 January 2013 (UNHCR Canberra, Feb. 2013) [text]
- UNHCR Mission to the Republic of Nauru 3-5 December 2012 (UNHCR Canberra, Dec. 2012) [text]
- What We Found on Nauru (Amnesty International, Dec. 2012) [access]
Apparently, media access to the detention facilities on PNG and Nauru has been severely limited. A journalist resorted to hidden cameras to access centres at both locations for this Four Corners report.
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