LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court rejected an application on Tuesday to restore water, electricity and food supplies to an Australian-run detention center for ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia has released a stateless Rohingya man held in immigration detention for years, the government said on Friday, following a landmark court ruling that paves the way to end ...
KUPANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - On New Year's day, 45 asylum seekers in a ramshackle wooden boat slid ashore on a small island off the Australian city of Darwin. Four others had been swept overboard ...
GENEVA, Feb. 1 (UNHCR) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Friday welcomed the end of protests by asylum seekers in Australia's Woomera detention centre, but urged the government in ...
Asylum seekers in Australia have held weeks of protests against the federal Labor government’s draconian anti-refugee policies. They have set up 24-hour encampments outside the offices of ...
On Thursday night, the Australian government passed new laws that expand the country’s offshore detention regime, further evade international obligations, and allow officials to pursue prison terms ...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday claimed that Australia’s offshore processing and resettlement program is cost-inefficient and argued it potentially violates international law, advocating for an ...
When Australia signed the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention, it committed to providing protection to people who have fled war, persecution and human rights violations. Refugees have often ...
After nearly a year without basic income and support services, 42 refugees and asylum seekers remaining in Papua New Guinea will soon begin receiving a meagre allowance of 900 kina (A$338) per week ...
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