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 group said Sunday.
Canberra sends asylum-seekers who try to enter Australia by boat to camps on Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, but the conditions there haveRead more
Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says his phone conversation with US President Donald Trump this week was "cordial" but "very frank" as Trump reportedly expressed his anger over the proposed refugee deal between the two countries.
The deal was signed by Turnbull and the previous Obama administration late last year, and requires the United States to take in around 1,200Read more
Nauru on Tuesday dismissed as "fabricated" claims that asylum-seekers faced violence, abuse and humiliating treatment while living in Australian immigration facilities on the Pacific island, saying refugees had become political pawns.
The release of more than 2,000 leaked reports of incidents on Nauru detailing allegations of widespread abuse and self-harm, including children wanting to kill themselves, have sparked new callsRead more
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has asked the Australian government to make alternative arrangements for asylum seekers at a controversial Australian-run immigration processing center after his government ordered it be closed.
Though the number of refugees trying to reach Australian shores pales in comparison to those that attempted to enter Europe, authorities controversially ship asylum seekers to twoRead more