Many of the more than 100 people awaiting processing on the tiny Pacific island are skipping meals to make ends meet, a new survey has found ...

ASYLUM seekers at the Nauru detention centre will be freed from lock and key and all outstanding refugee claims will be processed as the facility becomes an open centre. The Nauru government said the ...

The Australian government is expected to begin the process of removing all remaining asylum seekers from the island of Nauru by the end of June, more than a decade after the offshore processing on the ...

Yesterday, for the second time this week, the Australian Labor government launched previously unannounced measures to overturn basic legal and democratic rights. Its immediate aim is to consign up to ...

CANBERRA, Australia, December 14 (UNHCR) - A UN refugee agency report released on Friday welcomes current efforts to improve a regional asylum processing centre used by Australia, but says ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor government announced last Sunday that it had struck a deal with the tiny remote Pacific country of Nauru, initially to take three immigration detainees.

NAURU Justice Minister David Adeang has also announced the detention centre will move to a 24/7 open centre from Monday, which means asylum seekers will now be able to come and go as they please.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees welcomes Nauru's decision to end the detention of asylum-seekers and to clear pending asylum claims promptly. On Monday, the Government of Nauru announced that, ...

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. 14 December 2012 UNHCR released this ...