Improved SL situation led to rejection
19 December 2010 12:22 pm
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The UN refugee agency says improved political conditions in Sri Lanka as one of the reasons that led to the jump in the number of rejected cases of asylum seekers in Australia, who should be sent home, a news report said today.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees regional representative Richard Towle says large numbers of people now coming through the asylum system in Australia are not refugees and “the challenge is how to find fair and humane and effective ways of allowing them to leave this country to go home”, Fairfax newspapers report.
Mr Towle told Fairfax that improved political conditions in Sri Lanka and changed methods for assessing Afghan asylum seeker cases have led to the jump in the number of rejected cases, most "left sitting in the detention centres in Western Australia".