Children attempting suicide and harsh conditions have renewed scrutiny of Australia’s offshore detention policy, with growing ...

The lawyer representing former detainees of an Australian youth detention centre announced in a media release on Friday that the Tasmanian state government plans to give AU$75 million to members of a ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. committee found that Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, including minors, on the remote Pacific island of Nauru even after they ...

A year on from a US private prison provider taking over onshore immigration detention centres, workers report chronic staffing shortages, leading to more suffering for detainees.

CANBERRA, Australia, April 20 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has expressed disappointment at the Australian government's failure to look at alternatives to detention for asylum-seekers arriving by ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR is concerned about the situation ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An outbreak of dengue fever at an Australian refugee detention center in the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru sparked calls on Thursday for greater oversight at the facility, ...

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 ...

In the decade since the Australian Human Rights Commission’s landmark report was released, evidence continues to mount about the harm immigration detention does to detained children — and their ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A protest by hundreds of asylum seekers at an Australian detention centre in Papua New Guinea, where some had sewn their lips shut in protest, had not ended despite government ...