The Australian government has agreed to pay detainees on Manus Island more than $70 million (US$52.75 million) in the "largest settlement in a human rights class-action" in the country's history. The ...

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(CNN) — After three days with almost no food, Behrouz Boochani struggles to find the strength to write messages on his phone, but he fears if he doesn't the outrage will fall silent. An refugee from ...

In light of the continued perilous situation on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island for refugees and asylum seekers abandoned by Australia, UNHCR has called again this week on the Australian government ...

AUSTRALIA must do more to care for asylum seekers held offshore after an Iranian man died in entirely preventable circumstances, Queensland’s state coroner says. Terry Ryan found 24-year-old Hamid ...

Thank you for the chance to briefly update you on UNHCR observations from our latest mission to Manus Island (Papua New Guinea). What stood out the most from this mission at the time we were there, ...

Australia has long shown disregard for international conventions surrounding refugees. It labels asylum seekers in detention on Manus Island as “transferees”, also frequently referring to those who ...

Police entered a decommissioned immigration detention center on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea Thursday and destroyed property and the dwindling food and water supplies of 400 or so refugees who are ...

Mr Barns, who quit the Liberal Party over its asylum-seeker policies, yesterday conceded he should have been more circumspect after he tweeted at 6:22pm on Sunday night: “I support riots on Manus.

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A new policy to take refugees from Central America may be paving the way to solve the refugee problem on Manus Island and Nauru. Turnbull can show leadership in the current talks in New York by ...