Under a hard-line policy introduced more than a decade ago, Australia has sent thousands of migrants attempting to reach the ...

The Australian government violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, many of them minors, on the remote Pacific island of Nauru, even after they were granted refugee status ...

Australia has been accused of trying to “escape its human rights responsibility” after a UN committee found it was ...

UN watchdog finds refugees and asylum seekers suffered deterioration of physical and mental health in offshore detention ...

GENEVA – A UN committee found that Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, including ...

The UN Human Rights Committee found 24 young detainees on Nauru experienced “cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment”. But are ...

Australia violated the rights of asylum seekers arbitrarily detained on the island of Nauru, a UN watchdog ruled Thursday, in ...

UN rights committee holds Australia responsible for arbitrary detention of asylum seekers in Nauru's offshore facilities - ...

Labor will vastly increase aerial surveillance of the nation’s coasts and scale up its capacity for charter flights to Nauru, ...

The UN Human Rights Committee has asked Australia to provide compensation to the victims and to ensure similar violations do ...