UN Agency Urges Australia to Look for Alternatives to Detaining Asylum-Seekers

by Gary Kopycinski on April 20, 2010

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NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–20 April 2010 – The United Nations refugee agency has urged Australia to look for alternatives to detaining asylum-seekers arriving by boat who pose no health or security risk to the public, after the Government announced it will reopen a remote facility to house them.