MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is deeply concerned over allegations that children held at Australian-funded Nauru’s refugee camps are exposed to sexual abuse and discrimination, a report published Friday said.
The Committee said that children living in Nauru’s Regional Processing Centers continue to suffer from "Inhuman and degrading treatment, including physical, psychological and sexual abuse" due to "limited capacity" of the national police to investigate these crimes.
Nauru has been holding hundreds of refugees, trying to reach Australia, in fenced-off processing centers. The United Nations warned that cramped and humid conditions were detrimental to the mental and physical well-being of children and has led to self-harm and suicide attempts by kids as young as 11.
