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

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia hopes to send thousands of Iranian asylum seekers back to their homeland under a new deal with Tehran, an Australian official said Wednesday. Foreign Minister ...

The Allan Labor Government is supporting refugees and asylum seekers to access free or subsidised training, helping them gain meaningful employment ...

GENEVA, 26 August (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency said on Friday that a review of Australian measures for asylum-seekers arriving by boat announced this month had raised serious protection questions.

Labor is now detaining 13 non-citizens including three at the Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation. The plan is to ...

SYDNEY (AP) — Australian rescuers were trying to help a migrant-filled boat in bad weather and rough seas off Indonesia on Wednesday, a day after the countries agreed to strengthen maritime ties to ...

In Australia, two women hung from a bridge and unfurled a giant banner over a Melbourne freeway reading “Let Them Stay,” as a protest against the government’s plans to relocate 267 asylum seekers from ...

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

UNHCR notes with deep interest the recommendations of the Expert Panel on Asylum-Seekers, in its report released today. UNHCR agrees that there are no quick or simple solutions to the complexity of ...

Asylum seekers at a London hotel say they have been left in limbo as they do not know where they will be relocated after its ...

Hundreds of people gathered Aug. 26 outside of immigration court at 630 Sansome Sansome St. in San Francisco for a vigil honoring asylum-seekers who have been detained by ICE. Photo by Mariana Garcia.