Criticism of Australian asylum policy goes to New York

Three prominent Australians have publicly condemned Australia's treatment of refugees at a conference in New York. Image: Human-rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson (AAP)

The conference drew the likes of former United States presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.

The Australians, speaking on a panel at a Women in the World conference, described horrors they saw committed against women and children while working on Nauru.