GENEVA/SYDNEY, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A U.N. committee found that Australia ... a group of refugees, found that Australia had violated two provisions of the treaty: one on arbitrary detention and ...

The Australian Home Affairs Department said it has been the government's consistent position that Australia does not exercise ...

US President Donald Trump is a vocal fan of Australia’s strict and controversial immigration laws that have for years ...

The Nauru Regional Processing Centre is an offshore Australian immigration detention facility opened ... on the island considered as genuine refugees. The highest population at the centre ...

The company that’s long run Australia’s immigration detention network has lost its contract, but not before building one of ...

Human Rights Watch has released its annual review of human rights practices around the world... and the organisation's report ...

At least 12 refugees and asylum seekers have died in Australian immigration detention centres on Manus and Nauru, either by murder by guards or suicide or medical neglect, according to human ...

The UN Human Rights Committee has twice called out Australia's treatment of refugees on Nauru. The government — and media — ...

All but one got refugee status in September 2014, but their detention in Nauru continued. The offshore processing centre in Nauru has long been a controversial issue in Australia. Picture ...

Under Australia's tough immigration policies, those attempting to reach the country by boat have been sent to detention centres - including ... complaint by a group of refugees, found that ...

on the remote Pacific island of Nauru even after they were granted refugee status, it said in a statement on Thursday. Under Australia's tough immigration policies, those attempting to reach the ...