Australia can help solve a complex and growing challenge without spending vast sums harming people to deter others, the Human Rights Commission president says.

Australia's new deportation deal with Nauru has sparked human rights concerns. Under a decades-old policy, asylum seekers are ...

Australia has started deporting foreign-born criminals to a barren Pacific island under a controversial new deal.

When Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan delivered the national budget yesterday, he blamed the nation’s $17.8 billion deficit on the stubbornly high Australian dollar, softening company-tax revenue and a ...

Papua New Guinea is a struggling nation that ranks near the bottom of most indexes of human and economic development. It is also, as of this month, the new home of anyone who tries to reach Australia ...

The first deportation of a person from Australia to the Pacific Island nation of Nauru under a billion-dollar deal to ...

Had the engine not cut out just beyond Indonesian waters, Ali Reza and 60 others aboard the packed boat that launched its way south three months ago might now be safely housed on Australian territory.

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 ...

CANBERRA, Australia, Jan. 19 (UNHCR) - More than a decade on the run from West African wars have ended in smiles and safety on the other side of the world for 376 refugees from Liberia and Sierra ...

Three months after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restart the refugee admissions program it froze, groups that resettle refugees say more than 125,000 people are stuck in limbo.