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The unprecedented #NauruFiles leak has left Australia reeling. Seven reports of kids being sexually abused. 59 reports of physical abuse. 30 reports of children harming themselves.

One girl reported having her lips sewn shut. The Australian government has denied for years that any abuses took place and swore conditions were improving. It lied.

To make matters worse, private companies are profiting off of the suffering of desperate people. The government will try to hide behind these third-party private security firms it put in charge. But we won’t let it. Not this time.

Tell the government: No more profiting from human suffering. Shut down Nauru and #BringThemHere.

Nauru currently imprisons more than 400 people, including 49 children. These families have fled war, poverty, famine and abuse only to arrive in a nightmare funded by the Australian government. More than half of the over 2,000 reports contained in the leak involve children, despite the fact that minors make up only 18% of the detainees.

At the heart of these abuse allegations is the Spanish-owned infrastructure multinational Ferrovial, owned by one of the world’s richest families. When it bought the contract to take over Nauru, it knew it was wrong—legal experts warned its directors they could be liable for crimes against humanity. But it kept the contract until at least 2017 and kept the private security firm subcontractor, already the subject of countless abuse allegations even before the Nauru Files leak, in place.

After the #NauruFiles leak, no other recourse is left. Close Nauru Detention now.

All over the world, SumOfUs members are standing up to the security corporations that make a profit from detaining innocent people in multi-million dollar business deals. Thousands of members in New Zealand took action asking Serco’s mismanagement of one of the largest Kiwi prisons in the world. And one of our first and most impactful campaigns ever stopped for-profit phone companies from exploiting incarcerated people keeping in touch with their families.

Let's do the same with the children of Nauru. Bring. Them. Here.

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