Australia risks Human Rights Council chances without policy change, says Amnesty

A photo purporting to show an asylum seeker boat before it was intercepted by Australian border officials. Source: AAP

The international advocacy group, Amnesty International, has warned Australia must improve its human rights record if it wants to win a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council. Australia's record of sending asylum seekers to Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, mandatory immigration detention, boat push-backs and increasing Indigenous imprisonment rates have been criticised by the group in its annual report.

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