Offshore processing has caused extreme trauma and cost billions that could have gone towards more effective, humane alternatives
For most of the past two decades, Australia has run “offshore processing centres” in the small Pacific countries of Nauru and Papua New Guinea (PNG). These centres – described as “torture” by refugees and asylum seekers who have been forced to live in them – have been condemned in countless independent reports from doctors, human rights experts, UN agencies and parliamentary inquiries. So news that the UK government may develop its own offshore system is alarming. Australia’s experience demonstrates that offshore processing breaks people, destroys lives and shatters the possibility of hope for the future.
The UK government is wrong to imply that Brexit would greenlight offshore processing
