Refugee Update: Nauru
Apr. 12th, 2015 01:40 pmPlease be warned that the details of child sexual abuse in these news items are sickening.
Current and former workers at the Nauru detention centre have written an open letter alleging the government have known about sexual abuse, assault, and exploitation in the camp for at least seventeen months.
Nauru child protection worker: we felt a duty to tell Australia about abuse
Lateline speaks exclusively to three former Save the Children workers who were based at the Nauru detention centre.
Women who report sex abuse on Nauru face threats from perpetrators
Perpetrators 'have easy access' to victims on Nauru
Nauru open letter could send legal shockwaves - opening the possibility for the government not just to be sued, but for criminal charges to be brought against the Department of Immigration. Oh, yes.
ETA:
AMA among 15 peak health bodies calling for all asylum children to be freed
Spate of serious self-harm incidents among asylum seekers in Darwin, mostly by those in danger of being returned to Nauru. In February a sixteen year old girl who reported being sexually assaulted on Nauru attempted suicide rather than be sent back there.
Finally, from the ever excellent Gosford Anglican Church:

Current and former workers at the Nauru detention centre have written an open letter alleging the government have known about sexual abuse, assault, and exploitation in the camp for at least seventeen months.
Nauru child protection worker: we felt a duty to tell Australia about abuse
Lateline speaks exclusively to three former Save the Children workers who were based at the Nauru detention centre.
Women who report sex abuse on Nauru face threats from perpetrators
Perpetrators 'have easy access' to victims on Nauru
Nauru open letter could send legal shockwaves - opening the possibility for the government not just to be sued, but for criminal charges to be brought against the Department of Immigration. Oh, yes.
ETA:
AMA among 15 peak health bodies calling for all asylum children to be freed
Spate of serious self-harm incidents among asylum seekers in Darwin, mostly by those in danger of being returned to Nauru. In February a sixteen year old girl who reported being sexually assaulted on Nauru attempted suicide rather than be sent back there.
Finally, from the ever excellent Gosford Anglican Church:
