AUSTRALIA: ‘U.N. says Australia has broken a pledge to admit some offshore refugees’, New York Times, 24 July 2017

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees accused Australia of reneging on a 'clear understanding' that some refugees detained offshore who have close family ties in Australia could be resettled in the country. The commissioner, Filippo Grandi, said the UN agency agreed in November to help with the relocation to the United States of refugees in detention centers on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea and on the island nation of Nauru after Washington agreed to take in hundreds of refugees being held by Australia at those centers. But the agency did so, Mr. Grandi said, on the condition that some refugees would be resettled in Australia. 'U.N. says Australia has broken a pledge to admit some offshore refugees', New York Times, 24 July 2017