Rights Group: Australian Government and Border Protection

rights group: Australia Department of Immigration and Border Protection said the report repeated claims that had already been refuted, according to Metro News. It said Amnesty International had failed to approach the Australian government to verify its allegations. The London-based human rights group found in an investigation that it appeared that no Nauruan had been held to account despite allegations of dozens of sexual assaults and physical attacks from 1,159 asylum seekers and refugees who live among 10,000 local residents on the tiny island."According to confidential information provided to Amnesty International in September 2016, in the preceding two years there had not been a single prosecution involving refugees or asylum seekers as complainants in cases of assault, rape and theft," the report said. Australia attempts to deter asylum seekers from Africa, the Middle East and Asia from trying to reach Australian shores by boat from Indonesian ports by sending them to immigration camps at Nauru or Papua New Guinea. The Guardian newspaper in August published more than 2,000 leaked incident reports from Nauru that included allegations of sexual abuse, assaults and self-harm among asylum seekers. Genuine refugees among them are told they will never be resettled in Australia. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.