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Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday claimed that Australia’s offshore processing and resettlement program is cost inefficient and argued it potentially violates international law, advocating for an investment in community-based alternatives.
In a statement to the Australian senate’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, which has investigated the nation’s offshore resettlement policies since November 2025, HRW wrote:
Offshore processing also leaves asylum seekers and detainees vulnerable to abuse. Earlier this year, the UN Committee against Torture found that Australian resettlement policies lead to a violation of the state’s obligation under Article 2(1) of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The article obligates state parties to prevent acts of torture within its jurisdictional territories.
In May 2021, a torture committee decision address a case involving an Iranian asylum seeker who arrived at Christmas Island in 2013 before being transferred to a Papua New Guinea detention center. He was then transferred to Australia in 2019 for medical treatment. While in Papua New Guinea, guards allegedly tortured the man and non-fatally slit his throat. Mistreatment and facility conditions lead to him to become suicidal, as he engaged in self-harm. The man was released from Australian immigration detention in 2022 on a bridging visa.
The UN torture committee concluded that Australia has jurisdiction over detention facilities in Papua New Guinea and emphasized how the Convention against Torture applies even when detained individuals will be settled beyond their borders.
In January 2025, the UN Human Rights Committee also ruled on the treatment of asylum seekers in Australia. The case involved 24 unaccompanied minors who fled persecution in their home countries. Australian authorities placed them in mandatory immigration detention and transferred them to an overcrowded processing center in Nauru.
Investigators wrote that the center had “insufficient water supply and sanitation, high temperatures and humidity, as well as inadequate healthcare.” They also found that most of the detained minors suffered serious physical and psychological harm, including “self harm, depression, kidney problems, insomnia, headaches, memory problems and weight loss.”
The UN human rights committee found that Australia violated its obligation under articles 9(1) and (4) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which compels nations to protect individuals from arbitrary detention.
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In a statement to the Australian senate’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, which has investigated the nation’s offshore resettlement policies since November 2025, HRW wrote:
HRW argued that the program costs Australia more than A$1 billion (US$700 million) annually. In 2024-2025, it cost Australia about A$5.6 million (US$3.9 million) per person to house asylum seekers on Nauru, one of the countries to which Australia outsources asylum seekers. Experts estimated that it would cost the government only A$3,962 (US$2,750) a year for someone to live in Australia on a bridging visa while their asylum claim is processed.
Offshore processing also leaves asylum seekers and detainees vulnerable to abuse. Earlier this year, the UN Committee against Torture found that Australian resettlement policies lead to a violation of the state’s obligation under Article 2(1) of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The article obligates state parties to prevent acts of torture within its jurisdictional territories.
In May 2021, a torture committee decision address a case involving an Iranian asylum seeker who arrived at Christmas Island in 2013 before being transferred to a Papua New Guinea detention center. He was then transferred to Australia in 2019 for medical treatment. While in Papua New Guinea, guards allegedly tortured the man and non-fatally slit his throat. Mistreatment and facility conditions lead to him to become suicidal, as he engaged in self-harm. The man was released from Australian immigration detention in 2022 on a bridging visa.
The UN torture committee concluded that Australia has jurisdiction over detention facilities in Papua New Guinea and emphasized how the Convention against Torture applies even when detained individuals will be settled beyond their borders.
In January 2025, the UN Human Rights Committee also ruled on the treatment of asylum seekers in Australia. The case involved 24 unaccompanied minors who fled persecution in their home countries. Australian authorities placed them in mandatory immigration detention and transferred them to an overcrowded processing center in Nauru.
Investigators wrote that the center had “insufficient water supply and sanitation, high temperatures and humidity, as well as inadequate healthcare.” They also found that most of the detained minors suffered serious physical and psychological harm, including “self harm, depression, kidney problems, insomnia, headaches, memory problems and weight loss.”
The UN human rights committee found that Australia violated its obligation under articles 9(1) and (4) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which compels nations to protect individuals from arbitrary detention.
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