Manus is the CEO of Heller Manus Architects and a former president of the American Institute of Architects.
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Manus provincial governor Charlie Benjamin told Reuters the development had to benefit Manus residents but he had not been consulted about the plan.
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"Australia's prison camp on Manus Island has snatched four years from our lives," Imran Mohammad, who was sent to Manus Island, wrote in The Saturday Paper.
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Many of them learned English while detained on Manus, and they are the third and largest group to have left Manus since Mr. Trump took office.
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"The level of frustration on Manus Island is as high as it has ever been," said Ian Rintoul, an Australian refugee advocate who was on Manus Island last week.
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CreditCreditAshley Gilbertson/VII for The New York Times MANUS, Papua New Guinea — The plane banks over the dense tropical forest of Manus Island, little touched, it seems, by human hand.
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"The language of journalism has never been strong enough or critical enough to describe the suffering on Manus island and Nauru," he told me this week via WhatsApp from Manus.
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The closure of the Manus Island camp, criticised by the United Nations as "shocking", caused chaos, with the men refusing to leave the compound for fear of being attacked by Manus island residents.
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Knight said Manus was "very quiet," before the detainees arrived.
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Australia officially closed the Manus Island detention center on Oct.
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"Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology" — a.k.a.
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Voices from Manus: 'I don't want to go to Australia ... after what they did' But the condition of asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru and Manus under Australia's care soon became an international embarrassment.
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Chief Inspector David Yapu, Manus Island Provincial Police Commander, reported different figures, telling CNN that two refugees in Manus attempted to take their own lives over the weekend, one from Iran and one from Iraq.
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"Manus x Machina: Fashion In an Age of Technology" is … loose.
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So far, only the Manus Island center is slated to close.
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So far only 24 men have left Manus Island for America.
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The article also describes incorrectly the islands of Nauru and Manus.
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He has been held on Manus Island for over three years.
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The treatment of Elworthy, who was once banished from Manus for several months because she had given chocolates to the detainees, is consistent with Australia's punitive obsession in regard to the human debacles on Manus and Nauru.
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The other one is on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
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The Nauru and Manus Island camps have become a headache for Turnbull.
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How does your look channel this year 's Manus x Machina theme?
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The passengers were eventually taken to Christmas Island, and later to Manus.
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He has been on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea since 2013.
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But the suffering he has witnessed on Manus Island deeply saddened him.
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Do you really think we'd be sending them to Manus and Nauru?
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Manus Island is PNG's smallest province with a population of about 50,000 people.
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More than 800 people are detained on Manus Island on behalf of Australia.
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As of April, 821 men were still detained by Australia on Manus Island.
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Secret footage from inside Manus Island and Nauru features heavily in Chasing Asylum.
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Detainees held on Manus also have the freedom to move around the island.
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AX, which runs the detention centers on Manus and Nauru, declined to comment.
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Sudan native Aziz Adams has been detained on Manus for nearly three years.
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Despite a momentary loosening of restrictions on Manus Island, cell phones remain banned.
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The Nauru and Manus Island camps have made international headlines in recent weeks.
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"There's a danger in these young start-ups with no responsibility," Manus said.
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With the Manus center's closing looming, Australian immigration officials have been seeking alternatives.
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The migrants on Manus are but a ripple in a much wider sea.
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Nauru is an independent nation and Manus is part of Papua New Guinea.
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Nauru is an independent nation, and Manus is part of Papua New Guinea.
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The Australian government has committed to closing the Manus detention center by Oct.
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Her latest piece, titled Manus, makes the leap from single robots to pack behavior.
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"The very young children, the teachers kept them busy playing games," said Wendy Manus.
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Broadspectrum Ltd, which runs the detention centres on Manus and Nauru, declined to comment.
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Refugee advocates said the official document was given to them by Manus Island detainees.
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Manus x Machina opens to the public this week and closes on August 14th.
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Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (CNN)We are forgotten people, discarded on forgotten islands.
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There have been nine deaths in offshore detention center, and six on Manus Island.
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And it does fit with the manus half of the Costume Institute's exhibit theme.
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Manus' comments come after an overnight plunge in the price of bitcoin future contracts.
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The Australian government has said that the Manus center will close by Oct. 31.
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None of the men still on Manus have accepted the offer, according to reports.
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He'd seen people die in Manus, decline into depression, or become addicted to medication.
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Another refugee, Hamed Shamshiripour, an Iranian, died this month on Manus, an apparent suicide.
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In 2014, Reza Barati, an Iranian Kurd, was killed in the Manus detention center.
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Benham Satah, an Iranian refugee, in Lorengau, on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
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His descriptions of daily life on Manus offered a glimpse at this shrouded world.
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Its detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru is a festering sore.
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So for Manus, when it was in China, that project had its own engineering challenges.
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The Manus center has been a key part of Australia's controversial "Sovereign Borders" immigration policy.
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So far, no "boat person" detained on Manus or Nauru has been resettled in Australia.
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Manus Costello of Autonomous, a research firm, thinks buying an asset manager would be wise.
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Expect pieces by all of those designers to be in the Manus x Machina exhibit.
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"They need to be able to have a voice at the table," Ms. Manus said.
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As of July, 791 men were detained on Manus island, according to the Australian government.
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The phone desert on Manus Island and Nauru, another offshore island refugee camp, is unique.
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Imran told me Sandra and Len sent him clothes, phone credit and books on Manus.
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I went to Manus last year with the photographer Ashley Gilbertson to see the suffering.
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" The important thing, she added, was "to bring the focus back on the Manus men.
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Chewing the nut is a Manus habit often manifested in scarlet lips and rotting teeth.
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Every effort to be reunited with his family since he arrived in Manus on Nov.
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The Teslasuit Glove will compete with existing products from companies like Manus VR and HaptX.
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Some 750,000 visitors saw "Manus x Machina," while worthy scholarly shows went all but unvisited.
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After being moved to a remote detention camp on Manus Island, he documented rights abuses against the hundreds of asylum seekers held alongside him on Manus Island, where he has spent the last six years, and those on the tiny island nation of Nauru.
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These people cannot remain in Manus forever... But it is entirely up to the Australian government.
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But neither party has sought support from local residents, Manus Island Governor Charlie Benjamin has said.
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Last year, PNG's High Court ruled that the Manus center, first opened in 2001, was illegal.
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Manus X Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology feted the strides between fashion and technology.
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PNG's High Court ruled last year that the Manus center, first opened in 2001, was illegal.
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In April, Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court ruled the Manus detention center was illegal and unconstitutional.
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Kaine appeared Wednesday at the Atherton home of Jillian Manus, a Republican donor, philanthropist and businesswoman.
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Australia closed the center on Manus Island in 2017 and moved some of the asylum seekers.
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At the end of June, there were 854 detainees in the men-only facility on Manus.
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"We do not know what is our sentence," one of the refugees on Manus told us.
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The United States would identify an alternative processing location on Manus if required, the official said.
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Many of the claimants awarded the settlement remain on Manus Island, while others have returned home.
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" To which Dutton, the immigration minister, promptly responded that nobody in Manus "will settle in Australia.
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Other deaths include Reza Barati, an Iranian Kurd, killed in the Manus detention center in 2014.
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Australia owes those it has reduced to namelessness on Manus and Nauru sanctuary and dignity, now.
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According to the suit, filed by Freund's firm Lipsig, Shapey, Manus & Moverman ... Kassai wants Trump's co.
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Australia's offshore asylum seeker detention camps on Nauru and Manus island in Papua New Guinea have come under a renewed spotlight recently after Papua New Guinea announced it would close the Manus immigration center, because detaining people who had committed no crime breached the country's constitution.
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"I can only describe what is happening on Manus now as a humanitarian emergency," McKim told Reuters.
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Everyone who arrives by boat is detained and sent to Nauru or Papua New Guinea's Manus Island.
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Pence said the United States would partner with Australia and PNG on the Manus Island port project.
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Morrison has previously said that Australia's navy would make visits to the new base on Manus Island.
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" Just here for the pics This year's Met Gala played with the idea of "Manus x Machina.
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Instead, such people have been packed off to Manus or Nauru to have their asylum claims reviewed.
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In 2016, for the "Manus x Machina: Fashion and Technology" theme, Bey introduced us all to slaytex.
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Even without recourse to wearable tech or robotic contraption, she had followed the "Manus x Machina" brief.
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But it has vowed that nobody in Nauru or on Manus Island will gain admission to Australia.
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Elaine Pearson, from Human Rights Watch in Sydney, said conditions at Nauru and Manus Island are grim.
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The husband, however, arrived later, after a change to Australia's refugee policy, and was taken to Manus.
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In 2014, an Iranian detainee was killed during two days of rioting at the Manus Island center.
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According to Manus, the team was "derailed" for "almost an hour" discussing the new point of view.
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The way the Australian government treated him on Manus makes him not want to resettle in Australia.
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There appears to be disagreement about how many people are being held on Manus Island and Nauru.
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The other center is on Nauru, a tiny island nation that is even more remote than Manus.
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Shortly after arriving on Manus, Boochani began chronicling his experiences by typing notes on his cell phone.
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The rights panel's observations echoed deepening alarm among other humanitarian agencies about the conditions on Manus Island.
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Left, a photo taken by a refugee on Manus Island and released by an Australian activist group.
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The move could leave 1,885 people without work, counting associated jobs, said a Navajo spokesman, Mihio Manus.
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What makes the situation on Manus exceptional is that the Australian government is inflicting even more trauma.
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Protests by asylum seekers had led to rising tensions with the Australian authorities and their Manus enforcers.
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Lynne Elworthy, a mental health nurse, is one Australian who knows the agony of Manus and Nauru.
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Dispatch MANUS, Papua New Guinea — I was 17 when I first came face to face with refugees.
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A few months ago, 54 refugees from Manus were resettled in various parts of the United States.
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The Australian government has repeatedly denied claims that the living conditions on Nauru and Manus Islands are unacceptable.
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The exhibit, "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology," loosely covers the intersection of both industries.
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Casa Mila is "exuberant, context-rich, sensual, and imbued with a rich urban residential character," Clark Manus says.
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It also established that asylum-seekers sent to Manus will never be allowed to re-settle in Australia.
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Australia and Papua New Guinea each claim each other is responsible for settling the hundreds held on Manus.
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At the most recent event in 2016, KimYe took a cue from the technological theme, Manus x Machina.
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There may be some relief ahead for the Manus detainees, 98 percent of whom have been declared refugees.
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"The conditions on both Manus and Nauru are dangerous and unsustainable for legal and ethical reasons," Triggs said.
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Last year, Mr. Dutton announced that Papua New Guinea would begin resettling refugees held at the Manus camp.
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Fifty-four refugees from Manus and Nauru have already left under a refugee swap with the United States.
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Bean and Manus confirm Grown-ish writers tried episodes where consent was a small part of the episode.
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This year's theme for the fashion world's Oscars was Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.
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I'll also have a major feature from my trip to Manus Island running in the next few days.
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Since 2013, the government has been rigid: nobody confined on Manus or Nauru will ever settle in Australia.
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"We really want to mothball these places," Richard recalls Australian officials telling her, referring to Manus and Nauru.
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About 410 men, women and children are held on Nauru, and 823 men are held on Manus Island.
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She was with an Iranian who had been hospitalized in the capital after several suicide attempts on Manus.
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His family reached Australia before the imposition of the Manus and Nauru policy, and now live in Sydney.
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In 2017, the Australian government closed the Manus Island center and moved asylum seekers there to alternative accommodations.
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Medical experts have described the situation for the detainees on Manus and Nauru as nearing a crisis point.
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The Department of Immigration and Border Protection has denied the allegations of abuse on Manus Island made by CRNI.
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This is the first positive news in three years for asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru and Manus Island.
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Nana Patekar (center) attends the trailer launch of his Marathi language film Aapla Manus in Mumbai on Jan. 18.
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The limbo has been taking a toll: so far, six of the men on Manus Island have killed themselves.
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His government was allowed to open camps on Manus and Nauru, another Pacific island, in return for economic aid.
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Earlier this year, Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court ruled the Manus center unconstitutional, and said it would be closed.
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Refugees on Manus Island may also be reviewed for refugee settlement in the United States, according to the Times.
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The detainees on Manus and Nauru are mostly refugees fleeing violence in the Middle East, Afghanistan and South Asia.
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The company operates a controversial detention facility for refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
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Instead, they were intercepted by naval vessels and transported to Manus Island, which is funded by the Australian government.
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Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court ruled that Australia's controversial detention camp for migrants on its Manus Island was illegal.
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Australia has two, on the island nation of Nauru and another on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. Unpleasant?
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But Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Thursday reiterated the Manus Island detainees would not be resettled in Australia.
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Police numbers strengthened Extra PNG police officers had been deployed to Manus Island, according to Chief Superintendent Dominic Kakas.
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Video taken inside the Manus center on November 5, and released on Friday by the Australian activist group GetUp!
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The refugees currently housed on Manus come from a range of countries, including Iran, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Myanmar.
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Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly visited the refugees last month, currently being held on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island.
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The United Nations has warned of a "looming humanitarian crisis" in the Manus island center in Papua New Guinea.
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An asylum seeker on Manus posts images of an X-ray showing a man who swallowed a nail clipper.
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Within the first 48 hours of Prime Minister Scott Morrison's re-election, there were six suicide attempts in Manus.
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In 2014, an Iranian asylum seeker detained at Manus Island died after developing severe sepsis from a leg infection.
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East Lorengau Refugee Transit Center, the new facility on Manus Island, is intended to temporarily house refugees awaiting resettlement.
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"It just seems today that there's so much more out there, so many more people," Mr. Manus said quietly.
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The Manus, the Andrés Nocionis, the Pablo Prigionis, we never got those guys in the history of our country.
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Kamasaee said he voluntarily left Manus Island because he was denied adequate medical care for a serious skin condition.
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Under the "dumb deal", the United States would take up to 1,250 asylum seekers held on Nauru and Manus.
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The official vow that those marooned on Manus and Nauru will never live in Australia has assumed doctrinal vehemence.
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The single men on Manus would presumably bring up the rear, if accepted at all with Trump in office.
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Alongside family, friends and other advocates, Murdoch sent parcels to the Manus Island centre containing essentials for the refugees.
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Instead, they have been sent for processing on Nauru and Manus Island, which is part of Papua New Guinea.
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Australia's practice of offshoring refugees to Nauru and Manus uses a similar logic by shirking responsibility for unwanted migrants.
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There are now just under 800 asylum seekers still on Manus, and an additional 1,200 or so on Nauru.
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The majority of refugees on Manus and Nauru are from Iran and Iraq, and it is unclear whether a proven refugee on Nauru and Manus who is from those countries and had been successfully vetted by the Homeland Security Department would receive the same treatment as a refugee not from those countries.
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Conditions for the refugees were unbearable, said Nick McKim, a senator with the Australian Greens Party who is on Manus.
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According to the website Save Eaten Fish, the cartoonist has been living on Manus Island for at least three years.
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Anyone who subsequently arrives on Nauru or Manus will face the uncertainty of if and when they will be resettled.
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But Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said refugees still in the Manus Island facility would never be settled in Australia.
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And PNG's supreme court asked Australia to close the Manus Island centre after ruling it to be "unconstitutional and illegal".
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For his part, Pence said the United States would join Australia and PNG in building a port on Manus Island.
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Khazaei died in a Brisbane hospital in September 2014 after he contracted the infection in the Manus Island detention center.
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Technology (machina) is not replacing the hand (manus); rather, the two are collaborating as never before, stimulating innovation and expression.
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"Manus x Machina" occupies the two-story Robert Lehman Wing — a new location in the Met for Costume Institute shows.
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" Meanwhile protestors parked a car across the train tracks carrying racegoers towards Flemington, covered in writing which read "Evacuate Manus.
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"No one from Manus Island Regional Processing Center will ever be settled in Australia," Mr. Dutton said in a statement.
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Her interpretation of the theme [Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology] was very different than other people's.
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Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly visited the refugees, currently being held on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, this past week.
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The elevation of rules restricting access drives the refugee policy that led to the detention centers on Manus and Nauru.
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The Australian government had previously planned to transfer the men to the East Lorengau transit center, elsewhere on Manus Island.
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The United Nations has previously accused Australia of flouting international law in its detainment of asylum seekers on Manus Island.
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It's derived from the Latin manus, or hand, and means to "set forth from one's hand," or release from control.
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"Things are really looking messed up right now," said Abdul Aziz Muhamat, a Sudanese refugee, in an interview from Manus.
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This month, Australia said it had reached agreement with Papua New Guinea to redevelop a naval base on Manus Island.
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Though the Manus Island facility closed last year, there are hundreds of refugees still being held in Papua New Guinea.
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There are still some 225 people in detention on Nauru, and an estimated 515 in "transition centers" on Manus Island.
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The majority of the refugees being held on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Manus are from Iran and Iraq.
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She survives him, as do their three children, Manus, Gerard and Mary; and four siblings, Caitlin, Pat, Brendan and Liam.
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"She couldn't even form a sentence," said Dan Manus, a soft-spoken 2299-year-old in a Seattle Seahawks cap.
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While he may be isolated in Australia's Manus Island detention centre, the cartoonist Eaten Fish's powerful images are travelling the world.
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Everyone who arrives by boat is detained and sent to the tiny island of Nauru or Papua New Guinea's Manus Island.
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Manus Island was a major U.S. naval base during the Second World War, playing a key role in Washington's Pacific strategy.
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Australia this week turned down an offer by New Zealand to resettle some of the refugees held on Manus and Nauru.
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" Daniel Webb, director of legal advocacy at the Human Rights Law Center, said that the conditions on Manus were "incredibly harmful.
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"We did not anticipate the asylum seekers to be kept as long as they have at the Manus center," O'Neill said.
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Up to 3,000 people on Manus Island, Nauru or in Australia undergoing medical treatment could be affected by the proposed laws.
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The bill would ban all adults whose claims have been processed in Manus and Nauru from ever setting foot in Australia.
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The government's decision to close Manus was welcomed by human rights advocates, who have been sounding the alarm over the system.
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The Supreme Court ruling is unlikely to result in an immediate improvement in the quality of life of Manus Island's detainees.
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The Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea ruled in April that the Australian-funded detention center on Manus Island was illegal.
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Bring those stranded in Nauru and on Manus Island, many of whose refugee claims have already been deemed legitimate, to Australia.
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Mr. Dutton said the government was working to find third countries that would accept those living on Manus Island and Nauru.
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Yet the revelations about the abuses of Nauru, and a sense of shame about Manus, have begun to shift public opinion.
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International human rights advocates have long condemned Australia's use of the facility on Manus and the treatment of the refugees there.
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I met another who is 29 and who has come to accept that Manus may have to become his lifelong home.
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We also wrote this week about the new Vegemite, and the Australian government's efforts to move refugees from Manus to Nauru.
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Australian officials have said they would continue to provide services to asylum seekers who stay on Manus, including housing and food.
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SMITH Mr. Bolton's previous exhibitions for Rei Kawakubo, "China: Through the Looking Glass" and "Manus x Machina" are among his greatest.
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In 2016, the show was "Manus ex Machina," which meant almost the entire Jenner-Kardashian clan was in sparkling Balmain motherboards.
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Aziz Muhamat, a Sudanese refugee in Manus, said that of the 63 people called, all were from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Myanmar.
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"It was just incredible to be out of Manus," he said over a breakfast of coffee and eggs near Times Square.
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"Behrouz is intense when you first meet him," said Ashley Gilbertson, the Australian photographer who shot this portrait on Manus island.
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A United Nations report said that 88 percent of detainees on Manus examined by medical experts last year had depressive disorders.
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She has seen the "plummeting lows" induced by Australia's punitive measures, as I did during five days on Manus last month.
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Since July 2013, Australia has dispatched "boat people" trying to reach its shores to Manus and Nauru, far from inquiring eyes.
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At the same time, Manus and Nauru are a growing embarrassment to Australia, a party to all major human rights treaties.
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"This legislation is confined to the current cohort of people on Manus Island and Nauru," said Kerryn Phelps, an independent lawmaker.
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The incidents on Manus were only the beginning of a wave of attempted suicides and cases of self-harm on the island.
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S. refugee deal brokered by the Obama administration that involved the resettling of refugees on Manus Island and Nauru, the Post stated.
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"Those in the Manus Island Regional Processing Center found to be refugees are able to resettle in Papua New Guinea," he added.
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They are now living in Sydney; he has been on Manus for three years, hoping, says his lawyer, that Australia will relent.
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Iranian Behrouz Boochani, who is living in the camp on Manus Island, says the refugees are starving and are without medical treatment.
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The big picture: Journalists on the scene report the woman said she was protesting the Australian treatment of refugees on Manus Island.
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Manus Island and a center on Nauru have drawn condemnation from human rights organization for cramped conditions, inadequate medical facilities and violence.
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The majority of the detainees interviewed on both Manus and Nauru by U.S. officials in April are from Sudan, Somalia and Afghanistan.
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The event's theme, Manus X Machina, explores the relationship of fashion and tech, specifically how they can work together for the future.
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Mr Howard then introduced the Pacific Solution, which included the construction of two offshore detention centres, on Manus Island and on Nauru.
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A 2011 deal with Malaysia proved unworkable for the Australian government, which settled on reopening the Manus Island centre the following year.
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Mr. de Krester said that around 1,200 men, women and children were being held in Nauru and 900 men on Manus Island.
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Those who languish on the remote, tiny islands — Manus and Nauru — that host Australia's offshore immigration detention centers are not so lucky.
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Enter this year's theme: Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology, which examines the role of technology in fashion today.
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Australia runs nine detention centers for immigrants on the mainland, one on Christmas Island, and the facilities on Nauru and Manus Island.
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"As you know, many innocent people on Manus and Nauru are still suffering," he wrote in his Saturday message to the demonstrations.
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Refugees on Manus report that he had sought care at a hospital but did not receive it, leading him to harm himself.
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Papua New Guinea's new prime minister, James Marape, demands local control of the lucrative contract to run the refugee centers on Manus.
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In April 2016, the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court found that the detention of the asylum seekers on Manus Island was unconstitutional.
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American officials said dozens if not hundreds of refugees from Manus and Nauru would be accepted in the coming weeks and months.
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They first connected with Imran — and Faisal Mohammad, his traveling companion and roommate on Manus and in Chicago — through Facebook in 2015.
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"There will be about 25 from both Manus and Nauru will be going to the United States," he told Australia's Seven News.
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Most of the men on Manus Island have been formally recognized as refugees, but Australia refuses to allow them to be resettled.
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It's kept the deal I signed with Australia for the U.S. to accept refugees who were isolated in Manus Island and Nauru.
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She's made multiple offers to take in refugees languishing on Manus Island and Nauru, the products of a Australia's strict immigration policy.
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The Manus Island center was closed last October amid protests from its inhabitants, who said they feared being attacked by local residents.
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The allegations against Wilson Security since the commencement of their contracts on Manus Island and Nauru in 2012 are extensive and disturbing.
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Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian writer who has been on Manus Island for more than five years, welcomed the vote on Twitter.
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For the past five years, along with 700 or so other inmates, he has lived on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
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Through multimillion-dollar deals with Papua New Guinea, the Australian government established two detention centers on the islands of Nauru and Manus.
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Australia has vowed the asylum seekers will never set foot in the country after being intercepted by its navy and shipped to Manus.
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The Manus Island facility in Papua New Guinea housed 818 men with another 127 male asylum seekers living elsewhere in Papua New Guinea.
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Around 600 detainees on Manus island are defying the attempts to close the camp, saying they fear violent reprisals from the local community.
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The center inside a Manus Island navy base was declared closed Tuesday afternoon following a court ruling last year that it was illegal.
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Almost 900 asylum seekers are held on Manus despite Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court ruling three months ago that their detention was illegal.
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Placing refugees offshore on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea or Nauru is intended to deter other asylum seekers from making the journey.
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But when he was transferred to Australia's remote detention center on Manus Island in 2013, he realized his trauma had only just begun.
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Before that, Parker wore a Hamilton-inspired suit to abide by the 2016 "Manus x Machina: Fashion in the Age of Technology" theme.
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Hundreds of refugees currently detained on Manus Island may also soon head to the United States under a one-off agreement with Australia.
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"I came to Australia seeking peace but I was sent to Manus which was hell," Kamasaee said in a statement after the announcement.
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Clearly both he and Dutton reckon casting the marooned of Nauru and Manus Island as threats to Australia will play well with voters.
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Detainees on Manus Island have contracted malaria and typhoid, and there have been reports of a lack of toilet paper and running water.
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This year's iteration celebrates its latest exhibit, Manus x Machina, which focuses on how machine techniques have changed the art of garment making.
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The government said families on Nauru would be given priority for resettlement, followed by detainees on Manus Island, all of whom are men.
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Relocating the men on Manus island is designed as a temporary measure, allowing the United States time to complete vetting of asylum seekers.
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The lead plaintiff in the case was an Iranian, Majid Karami Kamasaee, 35, who spent 11 months on Manus Island in 2013-14.
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The discovery of the dead man, who was said to be from Iran, was confirmed by David Yapu, a Manus Province police inspector.
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The Obama administration had agreed to resettle hundreds of the refugees from Manus and Nauru, but this year President Trump questioned that decision.
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He shared updates of detainees with health concerns, wrote about the mental anguish of indefinite detention, and shared photos and videos of Manus.
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Human beings have been left to fester, crack up and die, as I observed on Manus during a five-day visit last month.
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After the Australian Navy intercepted his boat as he was trying to reach the country, he was sent to Manus Island in 2013.
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Some 600 asylum seekers and refugees are refusing to leave the now-decommissioned Australian offshore detention center on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.
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Asylum seekers intercepted attempting to reach Australia by boat are sent for processing to camps on Manus and on Nauru in the South Pacific.
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Manus is showing off a very simple demo that doesn't involve any interaction with the world, although the gloves are certainly capable of more.
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On Twitter, illustrators are rallying behind an Iranian cartoonist, who has been living in Australia's mandatory offshore detention centre on Manus Island since 2013.
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Jourdan Dunn is really playing up the gala's "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology" theme with her brand-new gray hair!
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Papua New Guinea's High Court ruled last year that the Manus center, first opened in 2001, was illegal and the camp closed on Oct.
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ABOUT 22017 asylum-seekers barricaded themselves inside a detention centre on Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea (PNG), after it closed on October 31st.
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Seven cases had occurred on Manus Island and two in Port Moresby on the mainland, but so far no one has died, said Boochani.
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Abdul Aziz, 24, who has spent more than three years on Manus Island after fleeing his home in Sudan in 2013, was very happy.
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Papua New Guinea has said it will close the Manus island center after its supreme court ruled detention of asylum seekers there was unconstitutional.
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IN ITS short, on-off existence, the regional processing centre on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea has witnessed an extraordinary amount of unhappiness.
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Another would be to address the court's concerns by keeping the men in Papua New Guinea but no longer restricting them to Manus Island.
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Australia sends asylum seekers who try to come to the country by boat to Nauru and also to Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
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Kurdish journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist Behrouz Boochani has been held on Manus Island for over four years under Australia's border protection policy.
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Irrespective of how the standoff between asylum seekers and authorities ends on Manus Island, the Australian government won't budge from its tough border policies.
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Migrants intercepted at sea are instead sent to Nauru or to Manus Island, a part of Papua New Guinea, where they are held indefinitely.
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The Refugee Action Coalition, based in Sydney, said the government spends about $900 million a year on the centers on Nauru and Manus Island.
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About 400 others in Australia seeking some medical treatment must return to Nauru or Manus Island before applying to go to the United States.
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This show makes a strong case that many of those doing the most exciting work today are engaged creatively with both manus and machina.
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"Fashion is a very democratic art form," said Mr. Bolton, who thinks the theme of "Manus x Machina" is particularly relevant to today's practices.
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In honor of the Manus x Machina theme, meant to combine technology and fashion, they pretty much dressed fancy and put on a Tamagotchi.
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This year's theme, "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology," predictably led to ostentatious displays of bling in the most stylish sense.
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According to Human Rights Watch, there are some 2,000 refugees and asylum-seekers being held in Australian detention centers on Nauru and Manus Island.
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About 19663,21966 people remain on two islands, according to Human Rights Watch: 270 men on Manus and 2140 men, women and children on Nauru.
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Later that afternoon, a man near the main transit center in Manus climbs to the top of an internet tower and threatens to jump.
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Unlike Nauru and Manus, Christmas Island is an Australian territory, and detainees there are entitled to some of the protections afforded by Australian law.
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Since 2014, 12 people have died after being detained in Australia's offshore detention centers on Nauru and Manus Island, part of Papua New Guinea.
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The Times recently sent journalists to visit the Manus Island camp as well as the new facilities the men are supposed to move to.
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When I first met him in Manus, he whispered in public spaces, his eyes ever-darting, as if trying to hide from threats unseen.
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A United Nations report found that 88 percent of the detainees on Manus who were examined by medical experts last year had depressive disorders.
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The main detention center on Manus is slated to close in October, and water and electricity to parts of it have been cut off.
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Mr. Turnbull said American officials had been on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Manus, where the detention centers are located, assessing refugees' applications.
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Australia has said that, once the U.S. resettlement occurs, it will no longer be responsible for the asylum seekers on Manus Island or Nauru.
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It is concerned about conditions in Manus and on Nauru, citing safety fears and instances of assault, sexual abuse, self-harm and suspicious deaths.
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Since 20143, more than 3,000 refugees and asylum seekers have been detained on Nauru and Manus Island, which is part of Papua New Guinea.
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But in a lawsuit she says Maureen and Manus McGee have been hawking knockoffs, and even participated in the illegal download of 'Elf' movies.
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More than 20143 people are detained on Manus on Australia's behalf, while another detention center on Nauru holds about 500 people, including 70 children.
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When they looked at the pterosaur embryos, they realized that the reptile's wing bone, manus digit IV, hardened much faster than in other flying reptiles.
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Australia plans to close the Manus facility by the end of October, and says the men will be Papua New Guinea's responsibility once that happens.
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The exhibit itself explores the evolution of dressmaking from handmade (manus) to machine made (machina), and all the different ways the two can work together.
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Then, you've got Rihanna's Morpheus-style sunglasses for Dior, and The Met Ball's timely 2016 theme, Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.
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The actress selected a light-up Zac Posen ball gown for the fashion-meets-tech "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology" gala.
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And what better time to go all out Gaga than the Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology-themed Met Gala red carpet?
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The Papua New Guinea Supreme Court will rule on August 22 on how to enforce its previous ruling, that the Manus Island camp was unconstitutional.
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However, reckons Manus Costello of Autonomous Research, markets are likely to look at the full impact from the off, as they have with Basel 3.
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Just think of supermodel Gigi Hadid's nails for the Manus x Machina-themed Costume Institute Gala in 2016 for a sliver of the price tag.
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Ian Rintoul from Refugee Action Coalition, an Australian rights group, told CNN that he had heard reports of seven attempted suicides on Manus since Saturday.
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Last month, Australia confirmed the center would close by October 31, reiterating that none of Manus' detainees would ever be allowed to settled in Australia.
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She also made headlines in Australia with her 2016 documentary Chasing Asylum, which featured footage secretly captured inside offshore detention centres Manus Island and Nauru.
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The refugees, those who attempted to reach Australia by boat, are housed on the island nation of Nuaru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
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Manus is building a sleeker, bike-glove style accessory, though demos last year required HTV Vive controllers to be strapped to your arms above them.
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Since 2012, refugees who arrive by boat are sent for processing to either the Nauru camp or one on Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea.
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Ms. Manus said improved diversity could help enhance the educational experience of all students while also helping raise up those who have been historically marginalized.
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Lawyers for the 898 Manus island detainees have asked the Supreme Court for compensation of 1,500 kina ($462.75) for every day they were held illegally.
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Vice President Pence announced Saturday that the United States would join Australia in bolstering a naval base on the Manus Island of Papua New Guinea.
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At the end of December, Australia held some 900 asylum seekers on Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea, and 85033, including 68 children, in Nauru.
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More than 900 people are detained on Manus Island on Australia's behalf, while the detention center on Nauru holds about 500 people, including 70 children.
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More than 20153 people are detained on Manus Island on Australia's behalf, while the detention center on Nauru holds about 500 people, including 70 children.
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The PNG Supreme Court last year ruled that the detention of asylum seekers on Manus breached the constitution and ordered that the camp be closed.
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"ICOs — if they're based on just a white paper, and they're just raised on that — then that's a problem and that's a scam," Manus said.
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There could be "tremendous" potential for healthcare applications of blockchain, Manus said, pointing to the growing focus on health technology at Alphabet's Verily and Amazon.
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The Papua New Guinea authorities' aggressive move, which Australia's immigration minister confirmed was taking place, represented an escalation of the conflict over the Manus center.
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But for those held at the refugee centers on the islands of Manus and Nauru, the recent election represented a loss of hope for change.
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As events continue to unfold on Manus Island, I hope the world is watching and holds us accountable for the failings that we will ignore.
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More people lately seem to be on complex combinations of drugs, Mr. Manus said — like the girl who, at his direction, was treated by paramedics.
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Refugees held at another offshore processing center, Manus Island, a province of Papua New Guinea, may also be considered for resettlement in the United States.
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Later that year, another Iranian, Hamid Kehazaei, died from septicemia in Papua New Guinea after medical negligence at the Manus facility left a cut untreated.
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"Supplying phone credit to the men at Manus has also taken on a higher level of importance in the past month or so," Murdoch explained.
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Desperate for a resolution, the country last month announced an agreement with the United States to take some of those confined on Nauru and Manus.
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Since 2013, more than 3,000 refugees and asylum seekers have been sent to Australia's offshore detention centers on the Republic of Nauru and Manus Island.
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Now 58 of them are on their way to the United States, boarding flights on Tuesday, according to American officials and asylum seekers on Manus.
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Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton refused to comment on the departure of the Australian-employed security staff on Manus, but said the camp's closure would proceed.
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Another 1,000 or so people are in detention in Australia, some of them asylum seekers transported to Australia for medical treatment from Manus Island and Nauru.
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O'Neil said Papua New Guinea would ask Australia to make arrangements for the more than 800 asylum seekers held at the detention center on Manus Island.
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The young models have graced the event's hot red carpet before, each rocking stunning looks at the 2016 Manus x Machina red carpet for the gala.
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"We lost trust in any court or lawyer or justice," Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian who has been on Manus for more than three years, told Reuters.
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Lawyers for the detainees have filed a suit in Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court to prevent the Manus camp's closure and for services to be returned.
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About 90 percent of the more than 800 men detained on Manus Island show signs of some form of psychological illness, the United Nations has said.
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Boats of asylum seekers are intercepted at sea and sent for processing at either the Nauru camp, or one on Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea.
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Australia's hardline immigration policy requires asylum seekers intercepted at sea trying to reach Australia to be sent for processing to camps at Manus and on Nauru.
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The Australian government announced in August 2016 it would close the Manus Island center, although there has been no update on when exactly it might happen.
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You'll have to wait until May to check out the Metropolitan Museum of Art's next Costume Institute exhibit, Manus x Machina (though here's a first look).
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As these extravaganzas go, "Manus x Machina" is exceptional, its clarity and serenity distinguishing it from quite a few of its predecessors at the Costume Institute.
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They are resettled on Nauru, or in Papua New Guinea, where Australia has another offshore processing center on Manus Island, or in third countries like Cambodia.
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Peter Dutton, the immigration minister, said people who were under 18 when they were sent to either Manus or Nauru would be exempt from the law.
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Meanwhile, small but eye-catching protests over the Manus Island crisis have continued across Australia in recent days, including a blockade of Customs House in Melbourne.
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For every detainee housed on the island of Manus, which actually belongs to Papua New Guinea, taxpayers have shelled out more than $1 million since 2011.
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"I am very concerned by the fate of the refugees and people seeking asylum in Manus Island's transit centers," said Stewart Condon, president of MSF Australia.
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The committee was concerned about conditions in Manus and in Nauru, citing serious safety concerns and instances of assault, sexual abuse, self-harm and suspicious deaths.
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On Thursday, the Australian government announced that it would be shutting down the Manus Island detention center, but did not indicate when exactly this would happen.
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"I am writing this letter from inside Manus prison as a refugee who has witnessed assault, death, sexual abuse and torture here," Boochani wrote on Facebook.
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Under Australia's controversial immigration laws, anyone intercepted while trying to reach the country by boat is sent for processing to camps in Nauru and Manus Island.
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"There was an incident at the Manus RPC overnight involving residents and PNG military personnel," the department said, referring to the so-called regional processing center.
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Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian refugee who has been held on Manus Island since 2013, thanked the Australian protesters in a post on his Facebook page.
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But one thing is indisputable about Australia's offshore detention centers on the islands of Manus and Nauru: Despair is soaring among asylum seekers being held there.
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About 600 men have barricaded themselves inside the camp on remote Manus island in Papua New Guinea, defying efforts by Australia and PNG to shut it.
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He said he would love nothing more than to join the 54 others from Manus and Nauru who had already been resettled in the United States.
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Lisa Pryor SYDNEY, Australia — Nearly 400 men are languishing on Manus Island in the South Pacific because they dared to try to reach Australia by boat.
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No one on Nauru or Manus is known to have done anything wrong or to want to come to the US to carry out terror attacks.
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A detention center at the other site, on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, will be closed, that country's prime minister, Peter O'Neill, said on Wednesday.
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When I was in Manus reporting on Australia's offshore detention center there, I ran into Nick McKim, the Greens senator from Tasmania, traveling alone, without staff.
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And like a kid in a giant landfill, the 2016 Met Gala (themed a very tech-y "Manus v Machina") was a total goldmine for Paulo.
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"The level of public opposition to the abuse and torture on Manus and Nauru had become too great," said one group organizing a vigil in Sydney.
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Many have been detained on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Manus for years in conditions of increasing concern for human rights groups and medical experts.
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Analysts say a Chinese presence on Manus Island could impact the West's ability to navigate the Pacific while offering Beijing close access to U.S. bases in Guam.
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The Australian Government isn't handling the crisis particularly well either, accusing the 600 men inside Manus of trying to "force a change" to Australia's draconian immigration policy.
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The 60 have had their refugee claims rejected and one has already been removed from the men-only Manus facility, said Ben Lomai, a lawyer representing them.
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Christopher Kane's Spring 2014 collection referenced anatomical drawings of female flowers; two of these pieces appeared in Manus x Machina at the Met's Costume Institute in 2016.
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Earlier this week, the PNG government announced that the Manus Island detention center would be shut down after the country's Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal.
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They have been locked up for years on the Pacific islands of Manus (part of Papua New Guinea) and Nauru while their claims of asylum are processed.
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The men fear violent reprisals from the Manus island community if they move from the camp to three transit centers, pending possible resettlement to the United States.
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"They pulled the shades, they didn't want anybody to sit by the windows," said Manus, in Paris with his wife Wendy to mark their 50th wedding anniversary.
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Speaking to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Wednesday, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton repeated that none of the Manus detainees would ever be allowed to settled in Australia.
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Papua New Guinea's High Court ruled last year that the Manus center, first opened in 2001, was illegal and the camp was scheduled to close on Oct.
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It requires the refugees on Manus Island either to be resettled in PNG, one of the Pacific's poorest countries, or to be moved to a third country.
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Earlier this year Manus VR showed off their virtual reality gloves for the HTC Vive, but apparently the company has no intention of stopping at the wrist.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Australia's practice of detaining asylum seekers on PNG's northern Manus Island was illegal and must stop.
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He was held in a detention center on Manus Island until it closed in 2017, and he was then moved to another part of Papua New Guinea.
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Public distaste for 'sharp power' on show Previously, in August, it was reported that China could be given the contract to redevelop a port on Manus Island.
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A military facility on Manus Island is of high strategic significance -- this is a deep-water port capable of hosting aircraft carriers and hundreds of naval vessels.
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Boochani, a Kurdish Iranian, has been held on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island since being plucked from a refugee boat on its way to Australia in 2013.
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Labor leader Bill Shorten has called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to consider New Zealand's offer to take 150 refugees from the camps on Manus and Nauru.
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On the remote island of Manus, home to an Australian detention center, refugees rely on WhatsApp, the data-based texting app, to communicate with the outside world.
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Blake Lively's bright lips and intricate updo, which was so delicately executed, we wondered if the Manus x Machina-themed look had been done by a robot.
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Under Australia's immigration policy, asylum seekers attempting to come by boat are intercepted and sent to camps on Nauru or on Manus island in Papua New Guinea.
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In Parliament this week, Australian immigration officials told lawmakers that 606 people at the main center in Manus were refusing to move out by the Tuesday deadline.
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The government recently offered refugees on Manus a chance to move to Nauru, for example, while they wait to hear whether the United States will accept them.
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En los últimos años, Australia ha endurecido sus políticas de asilo e inmigración y gestiona dos centros de detención extraterritoriales en las islas de Manus y Nauru.
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During a weeklong visit to the Papua New Guinea island of Manus late last year, where more than 800 men fester, I found rampant desperation and inertia.
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But a new experiment from Manus VR allows you to submerge your body even deeper into VR, in this case, all the way up to your arms.
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When, how many and from which island was left murky, but the men on Manus, who now number about 900, will almost certainly be last in line.
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In Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, I met Janet Galbraith, a writer and trauma worker who has tried to help the refugees in Manus.
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Detained on Australia's Christmas Island after crossing in a smuggler's boat from Indonesia and later forced onto a Manus-bound plane, he has languished here since Aug.
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We are not human, just a signpost: If you want to come to Australia you will end up in Manus with three years of trauma and torture.
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"Manus prison did not expect the new president to accept this deal," Mr. Boochani wrote, clearly distraught at the prospect that he could remain on the island.
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In 2014, artists boycotted the Biennale of Sydney over its sponsorship deal with Transfield, a company that manages the Australian detention centers on Manus Island and Nauru.
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This year's theme is "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology," based on the "influence of technology on fashion," according to Met Gala chairwoman Anna Wintour.
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The artist spent four years at the Australian-run immigration detention centre on Manus Island after the boat that was taking him to Australia broke up and sank.
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"We are deeply concerned about the U.S. deal," Imran Mohammad, 22, a stateless man from the Rohingya ethnic minority in Myanmar, told Reuters by telephone from Manus Island.
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Australia announced last month the Obama administration had agreed to take a substantial number of the 1,200 refugees held on Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
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Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish Iranian man who has been held on Manus Island for nearly four years, said there was some small consolation from Trump's "dumb deal" tweet.
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Twenty-two men have departed Australia's notorious offshore detention center on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea and are en route to the U.S., where they will be resettled.
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Australia and PNG are trying to close the Manus Island center, one of two remote Pacific camps that Canberra uses to detain asylum seekers who arrive by boat.
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From the Met's "Manus x Machina" Costume Institute theme to the constant race for the latest wireless everything, it's clear we're truly living in the age of technology.
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Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish journalist from Iran who has been detained on Manus island for more than four years, said on Twitter that workers had begun that task.
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Under Australia's hardline immigration policy, anyone intercepted trying to reach the country by boat is sent for processing to camps on Manus or Nauru in the South Pacific.
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But for the detainees, who spoke to CNN in a series of WhatsApp messages from inside the compound, the closure of Manus Island doesn't come as a relief.
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Lawyers acting on behalf of nearly all the Manus Island detainees will argue that they should be taken to Australia and be compensated for being held in custody.
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Under Australia's tough border security policy, asylum seekers intercepted on such voyages are sent for processing to camps on PNG's Manus island and Nauru in the South Pacific.
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Sawari now faces a return to what he described this week as the scene of his "suffering" on PNG's Manus Island, where he spent a year in detention.
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She famously defended her Hamilton-inspired suit to the 2016 Met Gala when social media users accused her of not abiding by the year's Manus x Machina theme.
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In August, Australia said it was going to close their Manus Island camp, although the refugees on the islands will still not be allowed to come to mainland.
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With mounting international pressure, officials at Manus Island centre are increasing pressure on asylum seekers to return to their home countries voluntarily, including offering large sums of money.
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Australia maintains a policy of sending asylum seekers who attempt to reach the country by boat to camps on Nauru or on Manus island in Papua New Guinea.
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"We already didn't have much hope the U.S. would accept us," Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian refugee who has spent more than three years on Manus island, told Reuters.
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Offshore Australian detention centers on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea and the island of Nauru hold around 1,500 people, with the average length of stay 445 days.
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An indefinite postponement of the deal would have significant repercussions for Australia's pledge to close a second detention center on Papua New Guinea's Manus island on Oct 31.
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With mounting international pressure, officials at Manus Island center are increasing pressure on asylum seekers to return to their home countries voluntarily, including offering large sums of money.
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"By accepting this settlement, (Immigration Minister) Peter Dutton takes responsibility for the deaths, the serious injuries, the torture and the ongoing harm to Manus Island detainees," he said.
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Just last week, an Australian offshore immigration camp on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island was ruled by a court to be illegally detaining around 850 male asylum seekers.
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The Papua New Guinea government has said it plans to close the Manus center after the Supreme Court ruling, raising the question where will the detainees be resettled.
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"Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology" is on its way to becoming the latest blockbuster for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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It seems that our message from Manus Island -- and the message of women, children and families on Nauru -- is only delivered when we pay the price of death.
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More than 300 Manus Island residents have signed a petition calling for the refugees and asylum seekers to be relocated in Australia, according to the Refugee Action Coalition.
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All of this contributed to the increasing public awareness of the terrible abuse that Wilson Security has committed against children, women, and men on Manus Island and Nauru.
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In a decision hailed as a momentous victory by human right advocates and activists, the court said the detentions on PNG's northern Manus Island breached the country's constitution.
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Her latest film, Chasing Asylum, brought Eva back home to Australia, where she turned her lens on the country's controversial offshore detention centers on Manus Island and Nauru.
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Since 2013, anyone trying to reach Australia by boat has been sent for processing to the islands of Manus, which is part of Papua New Guinea, and Nauru.
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The situation has grown especially dark on Manus, a remote island in Papua New Guinea where several hundred men from Afghanistan, Iran and other countries are being held.
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"We are really devastated with the election results," Shamindan Kanapathi, 28, a Sri Lankan refugee on Manus, wrote in a text message to refugee advocates at the time.
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Last year PNG prime minister Peter O'Neill announced the Manus Island detention centre will close in the wake of a PNG Supreme Court ruling that it was illegal.
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However only eight of more than 1,000 asylum seekers who have been held at the Manus camp have moved into the PNG community, reported the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Instead they are taken to detention centers in the island country of Nauru or, until recently, on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea while their claims are examined.
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In June this year, Australia agreed to a landmark $53 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of current and former detainees on Manus Island.
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This after securing a pledge from the president on Sunday to honor an Obama administration agreement to accept refugees detained on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Manus.
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Many of the refugees it holds, on the Pacific island-nation of Nauru and on the island of Manus in Papua New Guinea, are from Iran and Iraq.
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Mr. Trump said he had been told that he had to accept refugees held by Australia on the islands of Nauru or Manus for more than three years.
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The authorities break it by throwing Aziz, Benham Satah and others into solitary confinement in windowless containers known as the "chauka" (named after a bird unique to Manus).
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Ali Murdoch from Bega in New South Wales is behind the charity, and has been involved in supporting the men in the Manus Island detention centre since 2014.
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Artorias was a knight who dedicated his life to halting the spread of the Abyss; a dark, corrupting essence linked to humanity and governed by the evil Manus.
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It is attempting to build ports in Papua New Guinea, and is increasing surveillance around Manus Island, where the United States and Australia are developing a naval base.
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Offshore detention and the processing of asylum seekers under harsh conditions on Nauru and Manus Island have been supported by both government and opposition Labor party lawmakers in Australia.
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The demonstration comes less than two weeks after the government announced a one-off transfer of refugees from remote camps on Nauru and Manus Island to the United States.
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SYDNEY, Australia — A standoff at Australia's offshore detention center on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea is entering its third day, with some 600 refugees and asylum seekers barricaded inside.
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On the gaming side, you've got complex toy guns with simulated kickback, and two sets of VR gloves: Manus VR, which we've written about before, and the Noitom Hi5.
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Lawyers in PNG will go the country's supreme court on Monday to argue for the immediate release of Manus Island detainees to Australia, as well compensation for their detention.
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Last year she attended the Manus x Machina-themed gala wearing a Hamilton-inspired suit, that upon first glance may not have appeared to coincide with the "techy" theme.
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Asylum seekers who arrive in Australian waters by boat are intercepted and sent to detention centers in Manus Island in Papua New Guinea and Nauru in the South Pacific.
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Update November 7th 2017: This article has been updated to include news of the refusal by the supreme court of PNG to keep the Manus Island detention centre open.
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Sudanese community asked for help Health services on Australia's detention centers on Manus Island and the small island nation of Nauru are run by International Health & Medical Services (IHMS).
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On a medical request form, filled in on 21 December and signed by the "Sudanese community" on Manus Island, IHMS is emphatically asked to look into Faysal's case again.
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"We people on Manus and Nauru were really hopeful that if Labor wins the election they will accept the New Zealand offer and set us free finally," said Boochani.
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Australia's tough border security laws mandate that asylum seekers intercepted trying to reach the country by boat go for processing to detention camps on PNG's Manus island and Nauru.
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Like Peleg, Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge of the Manus x Machina exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, believes in a forthcoming 3D revolution.
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Under Australia's immigration policy, asylum seekers attempting to reach the country by boat are intercepted and sent to camps on Nauru or on Manus island in Papua New Guinea.
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The most likely outcome at this stage is that many of those held at Manus will be transferred to the other Australian-funded centres, on Christmas Island and Nauru.
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Dutton said on Monday about 249 people from Australia's detention centers on Manus Island and Nauru to the United States under the refugee deal struck with the Obama administration.
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Legal action in PNG and Australia has begun, with lawyers acting for the majority of people held on Manus arguing that they should be immediately be resettled in Australia.
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What is clear is that the refugees exiled on Manus Island and Nauru have been forgotten, our plight has been erased from among the chaos that engulfs this world.
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The museum's other galleries will be closed, but the exhibition, the Great Hall Balcony Bar — and the "Manus x Machina" exhibition shop, of course — will be open for business.
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Last month, the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea ruled the detention of refugees on Manus Island was illegal, forcing the government to announce it would close the camp.
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For months, the Australian government has been telling the men they must move out of the Manus facility, and services have been gradually cut to persuade them to leave.
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But for the island's 854 detainees, it's hardly a relief, especially given the treatment they received on Manus Island and the (even still, unlikely) prospect of going to Australia.
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The abuses taking place at detention centers like Manus, where detainees have limited outside communication, have been kept somewhat under the radar due to Australian legislation passed in 2015.
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Called No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, the book was awarded the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature, which grants the winning author 125,000 Australian dollars (~$90,000).
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And here's my update on the latest news from Manus Island; and an Australia Diary entry from Brisbane about the dynamics of gender and work and just, well, men.
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Since 2013, migrants who are caught in Australia's territorial waters are subject to deportation or detention at offshore facilities on the islands of Nauru and Manus, Papua New Guinea.
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The police commander on Manus, David Yapu, told the New Zealand news outlet Radio NZ that minor confrontations between the protesters and police officers had occurred in recent days.
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Under Australia's offshore detention program, asylum seekers intercepted at sea were to be housed at detention centers on Manus and on Nauru, an independent island nation to the east.
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So in theory, a man from Manus could go to the United States under the recently announced deal, become a Harvard professor, and never be able to visit Sydney.
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The situation has come to a head lately with the closure of the Australian-run Manus Island Regional Processing Centre in Papua New Guinea at the end of October.
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Armies of selfie-takers-and-sharers were arriving, more interested in photogenic events, like the Costume Institute's theatrically installed "Manus x Machina" show last year, than in archival objects.
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A Critic's Notebook article on Thursday about the Metropolitan Museum of Art misstated the name of the department within the Met that presented last year's "Manus x Machina" exhibition.
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Just days after the presidential election, the Obama administration announced a deal between the United States and Australia to resettle hundreds of refugees languishing on Manus and Nauru islands.
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SYDNEY, Australia — They were the asylum seekers Australia rejected, and President Trump resisted: the men stuck on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea because of Australia's offshore detention policy.
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Apple's sponsorship of the show and the fact that its chief design officer, Jonathan Ive, co-chaired the Met Gala, does lend a "smart clothing" theme to Manus x Machina.
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Lawyers in PNG will go the country's Supreme Court on Monday to argue for the immediate release of Manus Island detainees back to Australia, as well compensation for their detention.
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Turning back boats The Nauru camp, along with one on Manus Island, were opened by the Australian government to help stop the flow of refugees coming to Australia by boat.
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Papua New Guinea has also said it plans to close the Manus Island center after its Supreme Court ruled it unlawful, raising questions about where the refugees would be resettled.
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Speaking from inside the detention center on Manus, Lebanon detainee Ahmed Trad told CNN he hoped the closure would be good for him and his fellow inmates on the island.
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In 2016, PNG's Supreme Court ruled it was illegal to detain the nearly 800 refugees, as well as asylum seekers who have not been registered as refugees, on Manus Island.
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"What we do know is that he should not have been in detention, should not have been on Manus Island and was denied the medical attention he need," he said.
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Australia's tough immigration policies provide that anyone intercepted while trying to reach the country by boat is sent for processing to camps in Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island.
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The fate of the refugees, who were confined in rough conditions in Nauru and the Papua New Guinean island of Manus, has long been a toxic issue in Australian politics.
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Besides being very pretty to stare at, the gown embodies this poetically fine line between time-honored techniques and tech-harnessing machine work that Manus x Machina aims to underscore.
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Under Australia's border security laws, asylum seekers intercepted trying to reach the country by boat are sent for processing to detention camps on Papua New Guinea's Manus island and Nauru.
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Under the hard-line immigration policy, anyone intercepted trying to reach Australia by boat is sent for processing to camps on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea or on Nauru.
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Lawyers for 898 Manus Island detainees have asked the Supreme Court of the tiny Pacific Ocean nation for compensation of 1,500 kina ($462.75) for every day they were held illegally.
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The PNG government declared the Manus camp illegal and ordered its closure in April, while two asylum seekers have set themselves on fire in protest against their treatment on Nauru.
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After nearly a week in Manus investigating the standoff involving hundreds of asylum seekers who had refused to leave the detention camp that Australia tried to shut down on Oct.
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"We are extremely frightened and anxious at the moment," said Imran Mohammad, 23, a Rohingya migrant from Myanmar, who was detained on Manus after trying to reach Australia by boat.
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Electricity and running water were cut off at the Manus camp, and workers took down the perimeter fencing that protected the men from the local gangs who prey on them.
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There are now 843 asylum seekers on Manus Island, all men, with a large contingent from Iran, but also from other countries in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.
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The leader of the opposition, Bill Shorten, should challenge Mr. Turnbull to resettle all the refugees who have been stranded on Manus Island and Nauru for the past several years.
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No date has been set to offer the usability seen in the video to consumers, but the feature will be released as a part of the Manus SDK in June.
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Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian refugee who has been detained on Manus Island since 2013, said that those granted refugee status would be kept separate from those who had not been.
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"The people detained on Manus Island have endured extremely hostile conditions, but they will no longer suffer in silence," Andrew Baker, a lawyer with the firm, said in a statement.
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"I can relate to everybody I work with down there, because for the grace of God, there go I," Mr. Manus said, standing in the patrol parking lot between runs.
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Instead we've allowed them to use the plight of the Manus refugees, as well as refugee families on the island nation of Nauru, as props in a political power struggle.
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And yet, in all that time, I have not seen the level of cruelty toward these vulnerable people that the Australian government is perpetrating against the refugees on Manus Island.
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In 2018, a coroner ruled that a more timely medical transfer could have prevented the death of Hamid Khazaei, an Iranian asylum seeker detained on Manus, from a leg infection.
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Mr. Boochani continued to write on Manus, now mostly through WhatsApp messages to his translator so the words would be preserved, despite regular searches by guards who often seized phones.
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They are all part of an agreement that Mr. Trump called a "dumb deal" forged by President Barack Obama, now accelerating after months of secrecy, delays and conflict on Manus.
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O'Neill said he would ask Australia to make arrangements for the asylum seekers held on Manus Island, adding that they would be able to stay in PNG if they wanted.
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Detainees are defying attempts by Australia and PNG to close the controversial Manus Island center, saying they fear violent reprisals from the local community if they move to a transit center.
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Kurdish Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani, who has been detained on Manus Island, part of PNG in the South Pacific, for nearly four years, said Sawari had contacted him on Saturday night.
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Australia hopes that many of those on Manus and Nauru will be taken in by the United States, under a resettlement deal struck in the late days of the Obama administration.
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Last year's look was also very topical and equally dramatic, as Perry attended the Manus x Machina exhibit in a custom Prada gown festooned with steampunk embellishments like clocks and gears.
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The couple has attended every Met Gala since then together, with the pair wearing a coordinated shiny look from Olivier Rousteing in 2016, keeping with the bash's Manus x Machina theme.
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Vehement opposition among Manus residents to the asylum seekers has raised fears within the camp of potential violence, stoked further by the departure of Australian-employed private security guards on Tuesday.
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Deep, black lips, gray hair and silvery smoky eyes flooded the Met Gala red carpet (as expected) to fit the evening's "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology" theme.
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"The primary reason for Turnbull's visit is to discuss economic prospects but the topic of Manus island will be addressed too," a source familiar with the visit told Reuters on Thursday.
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Morrison's government is known for a hardline immigration policy, which includes attempting to block the so-called Medivac bill, which allows refugees from Nauru and Manus into Australia for medical treatment.
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Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish journalist from Iran who has been detained on Manus island for more than four years, said 90 of the men were sick and required "urgent" medical treatment.
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"We think what has happened in the court today is a big step toward justice," Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish journalist detained by Australia on Manus Island since 2013, said on Twitter.
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The 1989 singer, who is also the evening's co-chair, stepped out in a head-turning look fit for the gala's "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology" theme.
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Given the risky boat journey the refugees in Manus and Nauru undertook to reach Australia, it is unlikely many of them have strong family ties to the United States, experts said.
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Australia's hardline immigration policy requires asylum seekers intercepted at sea trying to reach Australia to be sent for processing to camps at Manus and on the South Pacific island of Nauru.
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PNG's decision to close the facility on Manus Island, which follows a ruling by its Supreme Court that the center is unconstitutional, is a significant blow to Australia's hardline immigration policies.
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More than 800 men who tried to reach Australia by boat in recent years are being held in an Australian-funded detention center on Manus Island in northern Papua New Guinea.
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On a college campus — where "let's just be honest, people are drinking and smoking and whatever," as episode writer Richard Manus says — those kind of parameters seem nearly impossible to enforce.
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"The line where she's like, 'The fact that we're laughing about that story — about a guy getting assaulted — is problematic,' was really important for her," Manus explains of the tough moment.
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If "#techstyle" is focused on the tomorrow of garments as gadgets, "Manus x Machina" will be more a historical retrospective of hand and machine as equal players in the design process.
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Samantha Klein, a Next-Gen Intrapreneur at IBM, tells Refinery29 that the project came about after learning of this year's Manus x Machina: Fashion in the Age of Technology exhibit theme.
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For instance, Manus said, Kodak announced earlier this month it would release a new platform for digital photography bolstered by blockchain — solving the societal problem of dwindling payment opportunities for photographers.
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Australia exiled these men to Manus and an even more distant island, Nauru, to keep them and others from trying to reach Australia by boat, and the boats have mostly stopped.
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About 1,600 people remain on the two islands, with 750 men on Manus and 850 men, women and children on Nauru, according to the most recent report from Human Rights Watch.
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On Tuesday night, the authorities in the Manus detention center posted a notice offering refugees voluntary relocation to another Australian offshore processing facility on Nauru, an island nation to the east.
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So far, only about 50 refugees have been relocated to the United States after extensive screening, about half of them from Manus and half from Nauru, according to Human Rights Watch.
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To better understand the problem, The New York Times worked with human rights groups and asylum seekers on Manus to compile a rough timeline of events since the May 18 election.
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"While the home affairs minister spends his time arguing to repeal the Medevac bill, the situation on Manus spins out of control," says Ian Rintoul, spokesman for the Refugee Action Coalition.
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Australia and Papua New Guinea announced last month that they would upgrade a base in Lombrum, a port on Manus Island that has a strategically vital position overlooking key trade routes.
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Manus Island, a part of Papua New Guinea, is home to one of two offshore centers where Australia has been housing asylum seekers intercepted at sea for the past four years.
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"This death is yet another bleak tragedy to arise out of the ongoing suffering and tensions on Manus Island," Graham Thom, refugee coordinator at Amnesty International Australia, said in a statement.
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According to a report released in June by the Australian government, there were 803 people detained at the center on Manus and 371 in Nauru, including 48 women and 42 children.
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THE ARTS A Critic's Notebook article on Thursday about the Metropolitan Museum of Art misstated the name of the department within the Met that presented last year's "Manus x Machina" exhibition.
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Under Australian law, anyone intercepted trying to reach the country by boat is sent for processing to camps on the tiny Pacific islands of Nauru or to Manus Island off PNG.
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Pence also said the United States would join Australia to help Papua New Guinea build a navy base on its Manus Island, which was a U.S. base in World War Two.
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Under Australia's tough immigration laws, asylum seekers intercepted trying to reach the country by boat are sent for processing on PNG's Manus island and the tiny South Pacific island nation of Nauru.
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The proposed lifetime ban The US deal is not contingent on legislation, now before parliament, for a lifetime ban on any people processed on Nauru and Manus since mid-2013 entering Australia.
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The electrifying video set was inspired by this year's theme "Manus x Machina," and had stars like Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and Selena Gomez strike their best pose and/or dance move.
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Australian Minister: 'Baby Asha' will be sent back to Nauru On Monday, the UNHCR released a statement calling for the immediate movement of refugees on Nauru and Manus Island to humane conditions.
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The 17-year-old jaguar, named Juma, made an appearance at an event on Monday to commemorate the passing of the Olympic torch in Manus, the largest city in the Brazilian Amazon.
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Australia has long been condemned for its practice of sending asylum seekers who arrive there by boat to offshore detention centers it runs in Manus Island and Nauru, a tiny Pacific island.
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This year stars totally transformed into couture robots for the Manus x Machina celebration and we just learned what 2017 will bring — a celebration of Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo's work.
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O'Neill said he would ask Australia to make arrangements for the asylum seekers held on Manus Island, adding that they would be able to stay in Papua New Guinea if they wanted.
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After detaining the refugees at sea, Australia transported them to "offshore processing centers" that it opened in 2013 on Manus Island in PNG and on the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru.
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Papua New Guinea ordered the closure of the Manus camp after the country's Supreme Court ruled the facility unlawful, leaving the fate of the 850 people held there up in the air.
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Unlike what we expected, Manus x Machina actually seems like more of a celebration of venerable handiwork versus an extensive look at the most technologically sophisticated techniques being used in fashion design.
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But Maya Manus, an African-American law student at Seattle University, a private institution, said her time as an undergraduate at Washington State University showed her the need for such diversity efforts.
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We predicted some gowns for her Met Gala co-chair duties for the upcoming Manus x Machina-themed bash, but according to the video, she'll be dressed as a sword-carrying robot.
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"Manus x Machina," which transformed the Met's Robert Lehman Wing with a design by the New York office of Rem Koolhaas's Office for Metropolitan Architecture, has attracted over 664,000 visitors so far.
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But one of the refugees on Manus, Amir Taghinia, said that there was confusion about what the offer might mean for the men hoping to be granted asylum in the United States.
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At its heart, though, it is a detailed critical study and description of what Boochani terms 'Manus Prison Theory'… [He] provides a new understanding both of Australia's actions and of Australia itself.
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The New York Times worked with human rights groups and asylum seekers on Manus Island to examine a rash of suicide attempts and acts of self-harm since Australia's May 2100 election.
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This is a stunning and devastating account of life on remote Manus Island, where Behrouz, a Kurdish-Iranian journalist seeking asylum, has been held illegally by the Australian government for six years.
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But disputes over contracts for caseworkers and security personnel have hampered the transition as many people on Manus — frustrated by the lack of a resolution — demand that more local employees be hired.
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The situation was unsustainable — especially when a Papua New Guinea judge ruled last year that the detention center on Manus Island violated PNG law, and ordered the Australian government to dismantle it.
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It was the 12th death in Australia's offshore detention camps since 2013, and the third suicide on Manus since refugees like Imran started being moved to the United States six months ago.
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But his efforts to reach Australia by boat were stymied by the Australian Navy, and he was shunted off to a detention center for refugees on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
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PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill said the detention center in Manus would close after the supreme court ruled on Tuesday that the detentions breached the country's constitution and would have to stop.
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But when you look at a few hundred refugees on Manus Island and see the beginnings of an inevitable horde that will overflow your country, you lose any perspective on that question.
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O'Neill also said that the camp on Manus Island would have to close eventually and that the country did not have the resources to resettle detainees, but that the decision rested with Australia.
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But what about the consequences for those people caught up in all of this -- the 2,500 children, women and men with heartbeats who have been marooned on Nauru and Manus Island for years?
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The Manus island camp, and another on the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru, have been the cornerstones of Australia's controversial immigration policies, and strongly criticized by the United Nations and rights groups.
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Even more bad news for Turnbull is the growing fear among lawyers and refugee advocates that Trump's "extreme vetting" would effectively rule out most of the asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus island.
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The Manus x Machina theme seems fitting for the tech savy teen, who is one of the most followed stars on Instagram and reportedly on her way to her own Snapchat Discover channel.
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Behnam Satah, a 30-year-old asylum seeker detained on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, said many in the camp were well educated and would be a boon to the Australian economy.
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Under Australian law, anyone intercepted trying to reach the country by boat is sent for processing to camps on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru or to Manus Island off Papua New Guinea.
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While Australia maintains its hard-line stance, a second case concerning the fate of the detainees on Manus is set to be heard by the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court later this week.
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In October, Australia withdrew all services to the facility and said it would fund three new "transit centers" on Manus, where refugees would be provided with security, healthcare and money to buy food.
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Last year, the US, Australia and Papua New Guinea announced they would partner to redevelop a naval base on PNG's Manus Island, best known for a controversial and now shuttered migrant detention center.
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But Manus Cooney, a Republican lawyer on the Judiciary Committee during the Anita Hill hearings, said the aggressive questioning from a panel of all-male senators hurt the GOP in the following election.
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Though the Manus Island detention centre was indeed closed at the end of October, it was by no means a positive process for refugees, and was dubbed a humanitarian emergency by the UNHCR.
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A second immigration detention facility on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island was closed amid protests in November 2017, and the hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers at the facility moved to another location.
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The Australian government incarcerated him for five years, first in a prison deep inside the Manus jungle, and for the last six months in a prison camp close to the island's only town.
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The application, filed on behalf of Kurdish refugee Behrouz Boochani, had sought to ease a standoff at the Manus Island immigration detention center which started last Tuesday, when the center was formally closed.
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An refugee from Iran, Boochani, and around 600 other refugees and asylum seekers, spent another night in darkness Thursday, swatting away mosquitoes in the stifling heat of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG).
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"Advocates in Australia are again today making inaccurate and exaggerated claims of violence and injuries on Manus, but fail to produce any evidence to prove these allegations," the statement from Minister Dutton said.
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Tonight, on the Met Gala's Manus x Machina (or "hand x machine") red carpet, we had high expectations to see all of these elements come together under one roof in a major way.
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He tried to reach Australia by boat, but the country's Navy intercepted him and sent him to an offshore detention center on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, where he's been held ever since.
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The camps on Manus island and Nauru have been key parts of Australia's disputed "Sovereign Borders" immigration policy, under which it refuses to allow asylum seekers arriving by boat to reach its shores.
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"I am hopeful that it means my stay on Manus is coming to an end," said Imran Mohamed, a Rohingya refugee from Myanmar, after receiving a notice about the visit by American officials.
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This week's Australia newsletter tells the story behind Mr. Cave's recent reporting trip to Manus — including how he and the photographer Adam Ferguson, who took the image above on that trip, were ejected.
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Parts of the center, on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, will close in weeks, according to the detainees, who said they had been told of the decision at a meeting on Monday.
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So if a refugee in Manus were by some miracle (an even greater miracle now that Donald Trump has been elected) to become an American citizen he would be unable to visit Melbourne.
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Under the money-for-migrants deal between Canberra and the Papua New Guinea government in Port Moresby, Australia promised its former colony hundreds of millions of dollars, but chiefly for projects outside Manus.
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"The deal represents a long overdue concession from the government that it cannot leave people on Manus and Nauru forever," Daniel Webb, a lawyer at the Melbourne Human Rights Law Center, told me.
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Refugees said that interviews conducted on Manus Island, which is part of Papua New Guinea and one of the islands currently holding refugees who attempted travel to Australia by boat, wrapped last week.
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"Advocates in Australia are again today making inaccurate and exaggerated claims of violence and injuries on Manus, but fail to produce any evidence to prove these allegations," he said in a statement online.
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Canberra and Washington are rebuilding a naval facility on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, and Australia is mobilizing resources for other economic, security and people-to-people programs to assist Pacific Island Nations.
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About 1,000 migrants intercepted at sea have spent years on the tiny island nation of Nauru or on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, under conditions that visiting experts have described as dire.
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The theme for the 20163 Met Gala, "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology," was intended to celebrate haute couture while also appreciating the role technology has played in moving fashion forward.
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Andrew H. Walker/REX/Shutterstock After giving a behind-the-scenes sneak peek of her previous Met Gala looks all day, Kim finally revealed this year's Manus x Machina look on tonight's red carpet.
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Despite Turnbull rejecting the offer, Ardern this week said it remained on the table and she would seek a second meeting with Turnbull to discuss the "unacceptable" situation inside the Manus island detention center.
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M. Adam Ferguson's images of Manus are claustrophobic — you get a glimpse of the infuriating helplessness of being stranded on an island in legal limbo, trapped far from family and increasingly, far from hope.
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SYDNEY – As Australia moves to close its detention center on Papua New Guinea&aposs Manus Island, lawyers are set to file a legal claim for the asylum seekers who want to continue living there.
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Aziz: 'I thought my life will be hundreds of times better' In just under a month, it will be the third anniversary of 25-year-old Sudanese refugee Aziz Adam's arrival on Manus Island.
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In May 2016, at the Manus x Machina-themed soirée, the youngest KarJenner made her Met Ball debut wearing a custom silver, fringe beaded Balmain ensemble, which she accessorized with an angular bob wig.
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The Papua New Guinea Supreme Court ruled last year that the country's Manus island detention center should close, forcing Australia and its Pacific island ally to confirm it would close the camp during 2017.
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They are refusing to move to the three transit centres because they fear violent reprisals from the Manus island community and that they may be resettled elsewhere in PNG or in another developing nation.
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They have been on Nauru or Manus for over three years and the only reason we cannot let them into Australia is because of our commitment to not allow people to come by boat.
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"Any plan that is to resettle refugees to safety so that they can rebuild their lives after the suffering that they've gone through on Nauru and Manus must be welcomed," he told the ABC.
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Papua New Guinean police cleared the remaining asylum-seekers from the Manus detention complex on Friday, ending a three-week protest which saw some 600 people surviving on rainwater and smuggled food and supplies.
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The swap is designed, in part, to help Australia close both Manus and Nauru, which are expensive to run and have been widely criticized by the United Nations and others over treatment of detainees.
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Australia wants to close its controversial detention center, which has drawn sharp criticism from the United Nations and domestic and international human rights groups, on Papua New Guinea's remote Manus Island on Oct. 31.
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US admiral: 'Great Wall of SAMs' Further fanning the flames, Pence announced the US would partner with Australia and Papua New Guinea to develop a naval base on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
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" 'Nothing more than subterfuge' In a strongly worded statement issued Tuesday, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said "the constant claims of the IMAs and advocates about their situation in Manus are nothing more than subterfuge.
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The Manus Island Regional Processing Center was originally built by the Australian government in 2001, together with another center on the small Pacific country of Nauru, to process asylum seekers who arrived by boat.
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Although about half of the Manus detainees have been designated as refugees, only eight have been resettled, and at least three have tried to return to the detention center, Fairfax Media in Australia reported.
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He detailed his daily life on Manus in a series of video diaries sent to The New York Times in 2016, and has been a vocal advocate for those detained under the Australian policy.
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I'd been to Manus Island, where hundreds of asylum seekers are still held, and covered Australia's offshore detention policy up-close, so I found it interesting that he would put the boat on display.
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United States officials said dozens if not hundreds of refugees from Manus and Nauru, the site of a second offshore center run by the Australians, would be accepted in the coming weeks and months.
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And it's held people who do try to sail to Australia in offshore detention centers, mostly on Nauru and on the Papua New Guinea island of Manus, to deter others from trying to follow.
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The Obama administration had agreed to accept hundreds of the refugees from Manus and Nauru, and while President Trump has questioned that decision, Australia has said that the United States would honor the deal.
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Also in June, Australia agreed to a landmark $53 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of current and former detainees on Manus for mental and physical harm sustained while incarcerated.
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Lupita Nyong'o, Margot Robbie, and Emma Watson attend the "Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2016 in New York City.
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At the moment, we can see the answer in the EU, we can see it in the U.S., and we can also see it in Australia with its offshore prisons in Nauru and Manus.
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Under the country's hard-line policy in force since 2013, all refugees who arrive by boat are refused settlement in Australia and are sent off to Manus or the tiny island-state of Nauru.
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America also announced it was helping Australia expand a naval base on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island that the Americans first built during the second world war to counter Japan, then the region's aspiring hegemon.
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Construction in fashion is a sign of quality, one that contributes to a fashion item's sense of status, and it's the theme explored in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's spring costume exhibition, Manus x Machina.
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The deal has taken on added importance for Australia, which is under political and legal pressure to shut the camps, particularly one on PNG's Manus Island where violence between residents and inmates flared last week.
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Last year Malik was Hadid's literal knight in shining armor with his very on-theme Versace suit with metal robotic-looking sleeves to celebrate the theme, Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.
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Following Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court ruling Tuesday, Prime Minister Peter O'Neill announced that he will ask Australia to seek other options for detainees at the Manus regional processing center in the Pacific island nation.
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Asylum seekers intercepted while trying to reach Australia on rickety boats have been sent to camps on Nauru, located about 3,000 km (1,800 miles) northeast of Australia, or on Manus island in Papua New Guinea.
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The men in the remote Manus island facility have defied attempts by Australia and Papua New Guinea to close the camp in a standoff that the United Nations has described as a "looming humanitarian crisis".
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The original wax figure, which was revealed last summer, wore the custom silver, fringe, beaded Balmain ensemble that Jenner donned at her Met Ball debut in May 2016 at the Manus x Machina-themed soirée.
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The men in the remote Manus Island facility have defied attempts by Australia and Papua New Guinea to close the camp, refusing to move to three transit centers despite having little food or drinking water.
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The Manus island camp, and another on the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru, have been the cornerstones of Australia's controversial immigration policies, which has been strongly criticized by the United Nations and rights groups.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A podcast made from 5,000 WhatsApp messages sent on a smuggled smartphone by a refugee on the Australian-run Manus Island detention center has won an award for excellence in journalism.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - U.S. officials have arrived in Australia to begin assessing asylum seekers held on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and Nauru for resettlement in the United States, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Saturday.
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G4S has worked to allay investor concerns after a series of past scandals including a deadly riot that broke out at a G4S-run immigration centre on Manus Island in Papua New guinea in 2014.
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This year's theme, "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology," is far more challenging than themes of years past, mostly in terms of how I wanted to express it as I understood it.
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They've had little food or clean water since Tuesday when Australian authorities handed the Manus Island immigration processing center back to the PNG Defence Force, which owns the Naval Base on which it was built.
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Warned to leave For months, Australian authorities have been warning the men, from countries like Iran, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, that they must move to new accommodation in Lorengau, the main town on Manus Island.
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The operation, codenamed "Helpim Friends," would use buses and trucks to transport the refugees to their new centers "without (the) use of force," Manus Provincial Police Commander Chief Inspector David Yapu said in the statement.
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"It is well time to close these awful detention camps on Manus & Nauru and start treating people like human beings," she added, referring also to an Australian-backed processing center on another Pacific island nation.
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The sudden presence of refugees, all men, from places like Iran, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Myanmar, in a town of just 6,000 people, caused suspicion and conflict, according to former Manus Island MP Ron Knight.
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Papua New Guinean police cleared the remaining asylum-seekers from the Manus detention complex on Friday, ending a three-week protest which saw some 600 people surviving on rain water and smuggled food and supplies.
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This year, the ball will feature a display of over 100 pieces of haute couture and ready-to-wear pieces playing into the Costume Institute's exhibition, Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.
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"This dress is our interpretation of the Manus x Machina theme, pairing delicate handcrafted floral petals with IBM Watson's unique ability to process fans' reactions in real time," Marchesa co-founder Keren Craig tells Refinery29.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne has dropped Wilson Security, a firm that also provided security services at Australia's offshore detention centers on Manus Island and Nauru.
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Unregulated investing opportunities, like initial coin offerings, may prove a risky prospect for entrepreneurs — but that doesn't mean that all bitcoin-related products are bad, tech investor Jillian Manus told CNBC's "Squawk Alley " on Tuesday.
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But many of the detainees on Manus and Nauru, cognizant of Australian polls that showed the opposition Labor Party leading before the May election, had hoped a change in immigration policy was on the horizon.
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Friday her country was willing to take 150 asylum seekers from among those held on Manus island and another camp on the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru.
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A new law that allows refugees on Nauru and Manus Island to come to Australia for necessary medical treatment promised to put refugees front and center in the upcoming general election, scheduled for May 18.
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The main detention center on Manus Island is slated to close in October, and water and electricity to parts of it have been cut off, but the fate of those still housed there remains unclear.
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Vetting to enter the United States takes at least 18 to 24 months — one reason nobody from Manus or Nauru has moved yet despite Australian hopes they'd all be scooped up by a C-130.
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"We are not safe outside the fences, and immigration are trying to make life impossible for us inside," said Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish journalist who fled Iran and has been on Manus Island since 2013.
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Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o and Nate Parker attend the "Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2016 in New York City.
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Some 1,905 men who were detained at the facility between November 2012 and December 2014 filed legal claims last year against the Australian government and two contractors who ran the camp on PNG's Manus Island.
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" She continued: "Apart from the way the whites treated the Aborigines when they first arrived — that was worse — this will come in second by the time Manus and Nauru are considered for their absolute cruelty.
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The Manus Island center was sealed off after a three-week standoff the United Nations has called a "looming humanitarian crisis" as detainees defied attempts by Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) to close it.
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Under Australia's tough border security policy, asylum seekers intercepted trying to reach the country by boat are sent for processing at the camps on Papua New Guinea's Manus island and Nauru in the South Pacific.
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Related: Canada Announces a $30 Billion Deficit and 10,000 More Syrian Refugees "In terms of Manus and Nauru, the people who've been found to be refugees need to be resettled in third countries," Albanese continued.
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"Mandatory offshore detention is not only illegal but harmful to the health and well-being of the hundreds of people stuck in centres like Manus and Nauru," Amnesty International refugee coordinator Graham Thom said in April.
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The deal has taken on added importance for Australia, which is under political and legal pressure to shut the camps, particularly one on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island where violence between residents and inmates has flared.
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The closure of the Manus Island facility - which holds asylum seekers fleeing violence in the Middle East, Afghanistan and South Asia - has the two South Pacific neighbors at loggerheads at a politically sensitive time for Australia.
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Broadspectrum Ltd, the operator of the Manus Island center, agreed to a A$769 million ($586 million) bid from Spain's infrastructure giant Ferrovial SA after PNG's decision to close the camp sent its share price soaring.
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The resulting closure of the Manus facility — which holds asylum seekers fleeing violence in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and South Asia — has the two South Pacific neighbors at loggerheads at a politically sensitive time for Australia.
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Kicking off the evening is supermodel vet Cindy Crawford, who snapped a selfie alongside her hairstylist Ward Stegerhoek, before her final fitting for the star-studded "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology" gala.
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A spokesperson for Dutton did not immediately respond for requests for comment on the closure but Dutton said in Melbourne that the Manus detainees could return home or go to another country willing to accept them.
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Australia has used the Manus island centre, and another on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru, for more than four years to detain asylum seekers who arrive by boat as part of its controversial immigration policy.
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Titled Manus x Machina: Fashion in the Age of Technology, the theme for this year's exhibit — as well as last night's extravagant Met Gala — celebrates the marriage between human handiwork and machine in fashion and design.
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He shared details about Manus in 2017 with The New York Times after President Trump walked back promises made by President Barack Obama to relocate all detainees who had received refugee status to the United States.
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But even if the reports about Chinese involvement in the Manus Island port are untrue, Beijing would be alarmed at the prospect of American and Australian military assets in PNG to counter any Chinese naval breakout.
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The legislation, which he said would be presented to Parliament when it resumes its session next week, would block migrants and refugees who have been sent to Australia's offshore processing centers on Manus Island and Nauru.
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Hugh de Kretser, a lawyer from the Human Rights Law Center in Melbourne, said the changes would mean a lifetime ban from visiting Australia for any migrant who had been sent to Manus Island or Nauru.
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According to his friend, Salim set foot on Australian soil after 19 July 2013; this date marks the implementation of a policy that involves exiling people (arriving to Australia by boat)to Manus Island and Nauru.
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"The decision of the PNG Supreme Court decision does not alter the inhumanity of the siege on Manus Island, nor alter the role of the Australian government," said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition.
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For two days, the men in the Manus Island Centre have defied efforts by Australia and Papua New Guinea to close the camp, saying they fear violence from the local community if they are moved elsewhere.
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U.N. rights spokesman Rupert Colville told a news conference in Geneva on Friday about the "unfolding humanitarian emergency" in the Manus island center, where asylum seekers have been reported digging wells to try to find water.
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Some of my favorite examples of quality journalism have been the young Sudanese men playing basketball in Western Sydney, the incredible photography by Adam Ferguson on the Australian outback and the sobering coverage on Manus Island.
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Amnesty International said in a recent report that it received text messages, videos and images from detainees of shots being fired by Papua New Guinea Defense Force soldiers at the complex on Manus Island in April.
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With the Sydney offices of International SOS, a leading medical assistance company, about to close for the weekend, and her departure to Manus by way of Cairns scheduled for Sunday, Elworthy wrote twice to request clarification.
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Housing them on the remote Pacific islands of Manus and Nauru has not only geographically isolated them from the Australian mainland, but also kept them at arm's length from the country's journalists and human rights activists.
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And in April, the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea ruled that the Australian-funded detention center on Manus Island is illegal and the refugees there must be relocated — but where they'll go is still unclear.
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Lawyers acting on behalf of nearly all the Manus Island detainees will argue later this week in the PNG supreme court that they should be taken to Australia and be compensated for being held in custody.
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