Nauru refugees petition against delays in settlement

January 26, 2018
Issue 

Around 500 refugees on Nauru have signed a petition to Australian Border Force demanding a timetable for refugee resettlement, to be immediately resettled in Australia pending any further resettlement options and to reunite families that have been separated.

About 130 refugees will fly to the US in the next month: 40 refugees flew from Port Moresby on January 23 and the remaining 90 refugees from Nauru are scheduled to fly in February.

But no Iranians or Somalis are among them because of the US ban on entry of individuals from those countries.

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