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News Ltd report ed on Friday night a Nauruan MP took to state television to call for big, strong men to head to the processing camp as Nauruan riot police were overwhelmed by the the number of rioting asylum seekers.
While News Ltd reported the major disturbance may be in response to Mr Rudd s PNG announcement today, the ABC reported that t he Refugee Action Coalition s Ian Rintoul says the protest is over the slow processing of claims and has been in the planning cheap hotels south beach for the past few days.
Following a three-day inspection of the facility, Amnesty International researchers found the facility totally inappropriate and ill-equipped, with 387 men cramped into 5 rows of leaking tents, suffering from physical and mental ailments-creating a climate of anguish as the repressively hot monsoon season begins.
The situation cheap hotels south beach on Nauru is unacceptable. The unlawful and arbitrary detention of these men in such destitute conditions is cruel, inhuman and degrading, said Amnesty International s Refugee Expert Dr Graham Thom.
The climate of uncertainty was debilitating with no information being provided to asylum seekers and clear evidence that this temporary holding facility has been erected in haste, cheap hotels south beach with no consideration for the individuals languishing in such squalid conditions.
Under the new arrangement signed with Papua New Guinea today - the Regional Settlement Arrangement - unauthorised arrivals will be sent to Papua New Guinea for assessment and if found to be a refugee will be settled there.
cheap hotels south beach Regional processing arrangements in Papua New Guinea will be significantly expanded cheap hotels south beach and people will be sent to Manus Island as soon as health checks are complete and appropriate accommodation is identified.
If the measure announced today and the international meeting on the convention that has been flagged lead to a significant change in the number of people cheap hotels south beach arriving by boat, then the government stands ready to consider progressively increasing our humanitarian intake towards 27,000 as recommended by the Houston panel.
Access to our humanitarian program must be through the international organisations which resettle people around the world, not through criminal operators who have pushed people on to unseaworthy vessels with tragic consequences.
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