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This report examines current policy framework and practices in five countries, namely Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and the Republic of Nauru. The research is the result of extensive desk-based research, stakeholder consultations in South East Asia and interviews with child asylum seekers and refugees. The research documents current practices in detention of child asylum seekers and refugees, the conditions of detention and the impact of detention on children. It also explores available alternatives to detention in these countries and emerging…
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Comittee's recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) report that refugees arriving in Australia are being treated inhumanely and abusively. According to the report, “around 1,200 men, women, and children who sought refuge in Australia, were forcibly transferred to the remote Pacific island nation of Nauru suffer severe abuse, inhumane treatment, and neglect.”
The report notes that asylum seekers (some of them have been there over three years) face neglect by health workers and service providers. AI and HRW report that it appears that Australia is intentionally abusing and…
The Government of Nauru has introduced a new Child Protection and Welfare Act which has been welcomed by UNICEF for “bringing Nauru into alignment with many international standards,” said UNICEF Pacific Representative, Dr Karen Allen. According to the article, the Act introduces mandatory reporting of suspected child sexual abuse or exploitation by persons in authority, including those in detention centres and other institutions.
UNICEF is seeking an international consultant for Technical Assistance to Social Welfare Ministries in Child Protection in Nauru, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu. In each country, the Consultant will provide technical assistance to the ministry responsible for social welfare to fulfill its functions as child protection mandated statutory authority, and lead of the multi-sector multi-stakeholder child protection system. With regard to the function of child protection statutory authority, this may entail (i) planning and budgeting to ensure child protection services are adequately resourced; (…