Self-harm and suicide worsening under Australian detention regime, report finds

Report criticises cuts to health and counselling services on Manus Island and lack of protection for 600 men

Refugees are increasingly being driven to self-harm and suicide by the continuing miserable conditions of Australia’s offshore immigration detention system, a new report from Amnesty International and the Refugee Council of Australia has said.

The report, Until when? The forgotten men on Manus Island, criticised cuts to health and counselling services, and the “heavily securitised” environment of the new accommodation, as well as the lack of protection for the more than 600 men still on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.

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