The United Nations committee has determined Australia breached its international legal obligations by allegedly exposing an ...

Declaring it was “high time” to end people’s suffering, UNHCR’s head of protection has reiterated the UN Refugee Agency’s concerns over the planned closure of the Manus Island "Regional Processing ...

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 failed to protect an Iranian asylum seeker from torture and ill-treatment during his long years in detention, a ...

UNHCR is very concerned about the recent developments on Manus Island in which one asylum-seeker reportedly lost his life and several others were reported injured. We are in discussions with the ...

GENEVA - The UN Committee against Torture has found that Australia failed to protect an Iranian asylum seeker from torture and ill-treatment during ...

United Nations says man experienced ‘serious violence’ in detention but Australia argues it did not control PNG facilities ...