The “Ferrovial” case: human rights abuses against asylum seekers in the Pacific Ocean

Last April, Amnesty International published a report denouncing the Spanish multinational company Ferrovial for complicity in gross human rights violations suffered by people seeking asylum in Australia. The claims relate to the management of an off-shore detention center in the State-Island of Nauru, located in the Pacific Ocean, where the Government of Australia has been taking people who arrived to their costs fleeing war, violence and threats to their lives.

The contractor of this center is the Ferrovial’s subsidiary Broadspectrum, which also runs the off-shore detention center of Manus, in Papua New Guinea. The latter has been deemed unconstitutional by PNG Supreme Court, and is waiting for its final closure.

Indago member Adriana Espinosa analysed the case for the CSR Observatory. The full published piece can be accessed here (in Spanish only).