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<\/a>Last Wednesday night, a eight months pregnant Somali refugee attempted suicide by drowning. Her requests to be taken to Australia to have the baby had been turned down.<\/p>\nThere were no indication that Peter Dutton was scheduled to meet any of the refugees or asylum seekers that Australia has transported to Nauru.<\/p>\n
The Human Rights Commission report, The Forgotten Children, has damned the conditions in which children and their families are held in detention on Nauru.<\/p>\n
The plight of refugees on Nauru also grows more desperate day by day. Nauru will not allow resettlement of refugees, so there are hundreds of refugees now living temporarily outside the detention camp.<\/p>\n
Remember Reza Barati: end offshore processing<\/strong><\/p>\nA protest vigil to mark one year since Reza Barati\u2019s death and to call for an end to offshore processing will be held on Friday, 20 February, 5.30pm at Sydney Town Hall. Speakers will include a relative of Reza\u2019s family, other Iranian refugees, The Greens and the Refugee Action Coalition.<\/p>\n
For more information, contact Ian Rintoul 0417 275 713<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A government dinner for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, hosted by the President of Nauru, was disrupted after refugees discovered Dutton at the restaurant adjacent to one of the refugee camps. (See photos). Alerted to Dutton\u2019s presence, refugees began a spontaneous demonstration, chanting, \u201cFreedom,\u201d Justice,\u201d \u201cshut down offshore.\u201d As the word spread more refugees came from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":{"0":"post-3792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-press-releases","7":"tag-nauru"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/311091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>As the word spread more refugees came from other camps including the more remote Fly camp for single male refugees.<\/p>\n