Australia’s policy towards refugees and asylum seekers stands at a critical juncture. Global displacement is at record highs and many countries are retreating from their responsibilities. At this ...

The Legal Aid Council of Nigeria (LACoN) has facilitated the release of 36 inmates from two custodial centres in Nasarawa ...

A Nauru government report states that, of the 93 transferees on Nauru, four have been granted refugee status, and 89 asylum seekers are undergoing the appeals process.

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.

They were held in two detention centres – one on Nauru and another, since shuttered, on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island. The UN committee rejected Australia’s argument that rights abuses ...

"Offshore detention facilities are not human ... effective control over regional processing centres," the statement said. "We welcome Nauru’s continued partnership in the effective delivery ...

A UN committee found that Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, including minors, on the remote Pacific island of Nauru even after they were granted ...

Labor looking to shut down the Nauru detention centre highlights the “fantasy world” the government is living in, Sky News host Chris Kenny says. “Just to highlight the fantasy world this ...

Filling the huge revenue gap left by Australia’s anticipated phase-out of its Naura Regional Processing Centre. Refugees walk near the entry gate of a detention camp in Nauru. Picture ...

Nauru is synonymous with asylum seekers and refugees trying to reach Australia. It holds a large offshore detention centre that became a hot and humid purgatory for those that lived there.

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 ...