Australia has started ferrying immigrants to the barren Pacific nation of Nauru under a contentious deal inked this ...

The abrupt departure of American officials from an Australian Pacific island refugee camp has fanned fears among asylum-seekers that plans to resettle them in the US may not go ahead, an activist ...

Australia has started deporting foreign-born criminals to a barren Pacific island under a controversial new deal.

GENEVA, 24 August (UNHCR) - Ahmed Dini was only three-years-old when his mother carried him from the violence of Somalia to the safety of a refugee camp in Kenya. Years in refugee camps that seemed ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 17 March 2009 Tomorrow, ...

An Iranian asylum-seeker detained in Papua New Guinea under Australian asylum laws has won Australia's most valuable literary prize for a book he reportedly wrote using the online messaging service ...