A small group of approximately 40 people detained for up to five years on Manus Island depart for the United States today from Port Moresby to build a new life, under the US deal. Many of the group of people – from a mix of origin countries including Rohingya – were transferred from Manus Island
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Last year, a humanitarian crisis unfolded on Manus Island for people seeking asylum and refugees detained offshore by the Australian government. People detained on Nauru have also been suffering from medical neglect of complex conditions such as kidney stones, breast lumps, diabetes and neurological damage, unable to get the treatment doctors are prescribing for them.
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The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) is delighted to welcome Carolyn Graydon to lead our Human Rights Law Program. Carolyn comes to the ASRC with an outstanding record as a human rights lawyer in Australia and international contexts over the past 21 years. In Australia, she has worked with Refugee Legal (RILC at the time)
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Aziz is one of about 600 men on Manus Island. One of those men who are desperate to leave but determined to stay, all at the same time. He is from Sudan, and has been on Manus for the past five years. Often, he and the other men were supported by the ASRC, and wondered
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Peter Dutton MP has rejected the Australian Medical Association’s (AMA) request to independently assess and have oversight of health care and treatment of men detained on Manus Island. The ASRC has long highlighted that people detained on Manus and Nauru are not receiving urgent medical treatment for complex physical and mental conditions, including torture and
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