UN watchdog says Australia violated asylum seekers' rights

The UN Human Rights Committee published decisions in two cases involving 25 refugees and asylum seekers who endured years of arbitrary detention in the island nation. The panel of 18 independent experts found that in both cases Australia violated the rights of migrants, including minors who received insufficient water and healthcare. "A state party cannot escape its human rights responsibility when outsourcing asylum processing to another state," committee member Mahjoub El Haiba said in a statement.