Anna Neistat, a human rights activist, lawyer and journalist who worked at Human Rights Watch conducting research in more than 60 conflict areas around the world, including Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Zimbabwe, Nepal, Kenya, Yemen, Chechnya, Sri Lanka and Haiti is in Australia for a Integrity 20 conference. Recently she became a senior Director of Research at Amnesty International and on behalf of AI visited Nauru, where Australian government keeps around 1200 asylum seekers. As a result of her visit, Amnesty published and report where maltreatment to refugees was compared with torture and abuse. We asked Anna about the similarities in the Eastern Ukraine and Syrian civilians, who see war atrocities every day. Anna believes she has seen nothing as bad as life in Nauru.
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