Some on Nauru worse off than Rohingya in Bangladesh

A top-ranking United Nations official has sharply criticised Australia's offshore processing policies for asylum seekers. The Asia Pacific director for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Indrika Ratwatte, (in-DREEK-uh raht-WAH-tay) spoke to reporters in Canberra after visiting the Nauru detention centre.

A supplied undated image obtained Sunday, February 18, 2018 of two Rohingya refugees waving as they board a United States bound plane in Nauru. Thirty-five refugees on the Pacific island nation of Nauru have left for the United States, becoming the sixth

دو پناهنده روهینگیایی که در حال انتقال از نارو به ایالات متحده آمریکا هستند Source: Refugee Action Coalition


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