The detention facility’s purpose has diminished, but the country’s geopolitical importance has increased. In the meantime, 73 people languish there.

Heidi Abdel-Raouf, the detention policy lead at the ASRC, told Guardian Australia that more than 60 people had been evacuated in the last year from Nauru, and they expected there to be zero asylum ...

Amnesty International has accused the Australian government of a “mass cover-up” after more than 2,000 case reports were leaked detailing abuse on the Pacific island of Nauru.

Asylum seekers on Nauru when it first opened in 2001 Australia's controversial detention centre on Nauru is empty, after the last remaining refugee was evacuated into the night last week. It ...

Sydney, Oct 8 (EFE). — Australia’s government said Thursday that it did not control the controversial offshore immigrant processing center it funds on the tiny island nation of Nauru and that ...

A young woman filmed the moment she 'accidentally broke into' an offshore Australian immigration detention centre. Travel blogger Chloe Jade was visiting the Micronesian island of Nauru, north ...

The Australian and Nauru governments make it very difficult for journalists to see the detention center firsthand. The Nauru government charges media an A$8,000 dollar (around US$5,800 ...

ELEANOR HALL: Jeff Waters in Nauru, thank you. A team from Amnesty International has conducted the first independent inspection of the Australian immigration detention camp in Nauru.

Once home to a thriving phosphate mine, Nauru is now awash with refugee accommodation made from white vinyl marquees. More than 2,000 people have been transferred to the center since 2012 as ...

Australia uses offshore detention centres in Papua New Guinea and the tiny South Pacific Island nation of Nauru to process would-be refugees who arrive on boats. There are 1,127 people in ...

Australia's controversial detention centre on Nauru is empty, after the last remaining refugee was evacuated into the night last week. It pauses over a decade of Australia's processing of asylum ...