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

Papua New Guinea is a struggling nation that ranks near the bottom of most indexes of human and economic development. It is also, as of this month, the new home of anyone who tries to reach Australia ...

Had the engine not cut out just beyond Indonesian waters, Ali Reza and 60 others aboard the packed boat that launched its way south three months ago might now be safely housed on Australian territory.

GENEVA, Feb. 1 (UNHCR) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Friday welcomed the end of protests by asylum seekers in Australia's Woomera detention centre, but urged the government in ...

CANBERRA, Australia, Jan. 19 (UNHCR) - More than a decade on the run from West African wars have ended in smiles and safety on the other side of the world for 376 refugees from Liberia and Sierra ...

The first deportation of a person from Australia to the Pacific Island nation of Nauru under a billion-dollar deal to resettle non-citizens with criminal records raises "serious human rights concerns" ...

Three months after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restart the refugee admissions program it froze, groups that resettle refugees say more than 125,000 people are stuck in limbo.

On Thursday, the Trump administration announced its refugee policy would prioritise admitting Afrikaners, South Africa's ...

A second group of white South Africans has arrived in the United States through a refugee program launched under former President Donald Trump. The group of nine people, including families, landed in ...