SYDNEY (Reuters) - The U.N. refugee conventions have become a tool to facilitate people-smuggling "death voyages", Australia's immigration minister said on Monday, amid mounting criticism of the country's hardline asylum seeker policies.
Under laws aimed at stopping migrants reaching Australia by boat, asylum seekers are sent to camps in Papua New Guinea and the tiny South Pacific nation of Nauru where they face long periods of detention while they are processed.
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