As an important milestone looms, advocates urge Australia to 'step up' its role in global refugee resettlement.

Research shows refugees and asylum seekers in Australia experience disproportionately high rates of suicide, PTSD and ...

As Refugee Week commences, Amnesty International Australia is amplifying its call for the Australian Government to establish ...

“Ned’s case is kind of like an exploration of all of the Kafkaesque aspects of Australia’s immigration detention and asylum regimes,” Verma said. “There’s no earthly reason why Ned ...

Australia violated the rights of asylum seekers arbitrarily detained on the island of Nauru, a UN watchdog ruled Thursday, in a warning to other countries intent on outsourcing asylum processing.

For a group of Filipino rights defenders in Australia, the vice president's arrival in the country — including her planned ...

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 ...

There are about 92 asylum seekers currently being held in Australia who are stateless or cannot be returned to their home country due to fear of prosecution. Many of them are being held because of ...

SYDNEY — A group of asylum-seekers has been flown from Australia to Nauru, after they were discovered in a remote part of Western Australia. Their arrival on the Australian mainland reignited ...

The United Nations Human Rights Committee found that Australia violated two provisions of the human rights treaty in cases involving 24 refugees and asylum seekers, including minors, who were ...

Mano Yogalingam, a 23-year-old Sri Lankan who arrived with his family in Australia to claim asylum when he was just 11-years-old, died last Wednesday after setting himself on fire. Memorial for ...