Manus Island Truth
The truth about Manus Island: 2013 report
11 December 2013, 12:36PM
In November 2013 Amnesty International visited the Manus Island Processing Centre.
Our new report, This is Breaking People: Human Rights Violations at Australia’s Asylum Seeker Processing Centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, uncovers the truth about Manus Island and the degrading conditions in which asylum seekers are forced to live.
Keep reading to discover the things you should know Manus Island but don’t get to hear about.
Manus Island and offshore processing
Manus Island is situated in Papua New Guinea (PNG), one of Australia’s regional neighbours.
The island’s first detention centre for asylum seekers was built in 2001 as part of Australia’s Pacific Solution. …show more content…
Read the report
This Is Breaking People: Human Rights Violations At Australia's Asylum Seeker Processing Centre on Manus Island, PNG
Manus Island today
There are currently 1,100 asylum seekers detained on Manus Island, all of whom are men who arrived without their families.
These men have fled war, chilling acts of torture, threats of death, or profound discrimination. Many of them have made the desperate decision to make a perilous journey from Indonesia and other countries, including Sri Lanka, to Australia.
At the time of our visit, two unaccompanied children had just been transferred back to Christmas Island and several other detainees told our researchers that they were underage.
Families are generally sent to another offshore processing centre on the small Pacific island nation of Nauru, operated under a separate series of agreements between Australia and that country.
TAKE THE PLEDGE
Add your name to our Refugee Pledge if you want fair treatment for asylum seekers.
Is it worth the …show more content…
Cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
- T., from Myanmar
Conditions on Manus Island
Overcrowding
Asylum seekers are detained on Manus Island in crowded accommodations - one dormitory houses 112 detainees.
Personal space is limited throughout the entire detention centre.
Access to water
In the largest compound, Oscar, 500 men receive only a dozen bottles of water per day to share between themselves.
This amounts to less than 500ml of water per person per day which is extremely insufficient, especially given the heat and humidity.
Medical services
Medical facilities in the centre do not meet the growing demand for health services. Requests by medical staff for basic measures that would improve health and sanitation have received no response.
One of the asylum seekers detained on Manus Island is a person with dwarfism. Despite his obvious difficulty in going about daily life at the detention centre, his repeated requests for simple accommodations have fallen on deaf ears.
Facilities
What is a refugee?
Under international law, a refugee is a person who:
has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political
11 December 2013, 12:36PM
In November 2013 Amnesty International visited the Manus Island Processing Centre.
Our new report, This is Breaking People: Human Rights Violations at Australia’s Asylum Seeker Processing Centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, uncovers the truth about Manus Island and the degrading conditions in which asylum seekers are forced to live.
Keep reading to discover the things you should know Manus Island but don’t get to hear about.
Manus Island and offshore processing
Manus Island is situated in Papua New Guinea (PNG), one of Australia’s regional neighbours.
The island’s first detention centre for asylum seekers was built in 2001 as part of Australia’s Pacific Solution. …show more content…
Read the report
This Is Breaking People: Human Rights Violations At Australia's Asylum Seeker Processing Centre on Manus Island, PNG
Manus Island today
There are currently 1,100 asylum seekers detained on Manus Island, all of whom are men who arrived without their families.
These men have fled war, chilling acts of torture, threats of death, or profound discrimination. Many of them have made the desperate decision to make a perilous journey from Indonesia and other countries, including Sri Lanka, to Australia.
At the time of our visit, two unaccompanied children had just been transferred back to Christmas Island and several other detainees told our researchers that they were underage.
Families are generally sent to another offshore processing centre on the small Pacific island nation of Nauru, operated under a separate series of agreements between Australia and that country.
TAKE THE PLEDGE
Add your name to our Refugee Pledge if you want fair treatment for asylum seekers.
Is it worth the …show more content…
Cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
- T., from Myanmar
Conditions on Manus Island
Overcrowding
Asylum seekers are detained on Manus Island in crowded accommodations - one dormitory houses 112 detainees.
Personal space is limited throughout the entire detention centre.
Access to water
In the largest compound, Oscar, 500 men receive only a dozen bottles of water per day to share between themselves.
This amounts to less than 500ml of water per person per day which is extremely insufficient, especially given the heat and humidity.
Medical services
Medical facilities in the centre do not meet the growing demand for health services. Requests by medical staff for basic measures that would improve health and sanitation have received no response.
One of the asylum seekers detained on Manus Island is a person with dwarfism. Despite his obvious difficulty in going about daily life at the detention centre, his repeated requests for simple accommodations have fallen on deaf ears.
Facilities
What is a refugee?
Under international law, a refugee is a person who:
has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political