“Ferrovial’s investors and financiers must uphold international business and human rights standards by rejecting their current association with the gross human rights abuses,” NBIA’s report said. Australia’s offshore detention centres have attracted widespread and consistent criticism since the country re-introduced its policy of “offshore processing” in 2012. The company that has taken over the management of Australia’s offshore immigration detention regime has been warned by international law experts that its employees could be liable for crimes against humanity. At present, there are 843 men held on Manus Island, and 466 people, including 50 children, in the Nauru detention centre. Another company told us: ‘All of us saw you and immediately got on the phone to the company’,” she said.

Source: The Guardian July 24, 2016 23:01 UTC