CANBERRA, Australia, July 12 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency said on Friday that problems persist at an island processing centre in Papua New Guinea that the Australian government uses to review ...

ANOTHER security guard has come forward with details about the hellish conditions facing detainees at the Manus Island detention centre. The Australian, who worked at the facility with multinational ...

A new policy to take refugees from Central America may be paving the way to solve the refugee problem on Manus Island and Nauru. Turnbull can show leadership in the current talks in New York by ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Nearly 2,000 asylum seekers held in a remote detention centre in Papua New Guinea for more than two years will receive A$70 million ($53 million) in compensation after the ...

Arguing that hosting the centre had caused reputational damage to the country, Mr O’Neill denied there was a law and order problem which would make it unsafe for refugees. “The community itself is ...

More than 300 asylum seekers and refugees who had refused to leave a recently closed detention center in Papua New Guinea have been removed from the facility, according to police. Police moved into ...

The Australian government has agreed to pay detainees on Manus Island more than $70 million (US$52.75 million) in the "largest settlement in a human rights class-action" in the country's history. The ...

The Australian Labor government is intensifying its anti-refugee regime, in line with draconian measures by governments globally to demonise people fleeing war, persecution and impoverishment—making ...

For years, Australia has employed a controversial policy for migrants coming by sea without proper documents for entry: It sends them to offshore holding facilities. The law was passed in 2013, during ...

Australia has long shown disregard for international conventions surrounding refugees. It labels asylum seekers in detention on Manus Island as “transferees”, also frequently referring to those who ...