One - likely two - deaths on Manus without a single refugee resettlement happening in over a year.
Justin Trudeau's decision to welcome 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada before the end of the year has been widely welcomed by refugee advocates, but one aspect of his plan has drawn criticism: the widely reported decision to exclude single men from the resettlement program.
Every single refugee approved for resettlement must do an in-person interview with a Department of Homeland Security officer.
Boat turn-backs, offshore processing and regional resettlement were singled out.
Ultimately, there is no grand conspiracy or single cause driving the low resettlement numbers of Syrian Christian refugees.
Despite this study having relatively large population sizes for a single maternity service in a resettlement country, due to the rare nature of most adverse pregnancy outcomes it was necessary to combine countries of birth into world regions in order to conduct statistical analysis.
At the moment, the UK government has not offered to take one single person from al-Tanf for resettlement.
Another resettlement camp, Anibare, is home to single people and childless couples.
"We are actively working to identify appropriate transfer locations for every single detainee approved for transfer and it may be the case that resettlement in a third country is the best option".
