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

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 ...

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.

Australia on Sunday defended a A$2.5 billion ($1.62 billion) deal to deport hundreds of non-citizens to the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru over the next 30 years, a plan criticised by human rights ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has called on Palestinian asylum seekers to be deported out of Australia, following the ...

Asylum seekers are being housed in £300,000 three-bedroom contemporary townhouses in a village in Suffolk - to the fury of local residents. The four conjoined properties are furnished with en-suite ...

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is under growing pressure to address hardline policies which overshadow the launch of Canberra's bid to join the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday.

Three men have been charged with raping a woman on Brighton beach, Sussex Police has said. Police were called to the Lower ...