Onus is on Australia for child safety - UN

By Dylan Welch, Daniel Flitton
September 22 2012 - 3:00am
Nauruan children play at the the water's edge beneath cranes used to load and unload container ships at the remote Pacific island, now reinstated as an assylum seeker holding camp.
Nauruan children play at the the water's edge beneath cranes used to load and unload container ships at the remote Pacific island, now reinstated as an assylum seeker holding camp.
Population rising ... Nauru's offshore asylum seeker processing centre.
Population rising ... Nauru's offshore asylum seeker processing centre.

THE international refugee watchdog has warned Australia will remain accountable for children sent to Nauru and should undertake ''vulnerability'' assessment for the welfare of under-age asylum seekers.

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