A Kurdish Iranian refugee who wrote an award-winning book via WhatsApp from inside an offshore Australian detention center where he'd been marooned for six years, finally left the island this week, ...

I arrived in Chicago this spring, one of a handful of refugees sent to the United States under an agreement with Australia. I’m enjoying my freedom here and looking forward to the chance to get an ...

Authorities have started to dismantle the detention center on Manus Island, as an estimated 600 refugees and asylum seekers refuse to leave the site amid an ongoing week long standoff. Almost 60 ...

For years, Australia has employed a controversial policy for migrants coming by sea without proper documents for entry: It sends them to offshore holding facilities. The law was passed in 2013, during ...

Images from the streets of DC following Trump's extraordinary move to flood the Democratic-led city with soldiers and federal agents.

There are standoffs, threats and continuing tensions over the imminent closure of the Manus Island Detention Centre. (The politically palatable term here is “processing centre”.) This closure, ...

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The detention center used by Australia to house asylum seekers on Manus Island will close, Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill announced Wednesday, after the nation’s Supreme Court ruled ...

Two years ago, Reza Mollagholipour, a civil engineer from Iran, was on a boat crammed full of asylum seekers and migrants bound for Australia from Indonesia. Mollagholipour fled Iran after receiving ...

Detainees at a refugee camp on Manus Island are blaming the Australian government for the death of a 27-year-old Sudanese refugee on Christmas Eve. Faysal Ishak Ahmed died in Brisbane, Queensland, on ...

The U.N. Human Rights Committee has condemned Australia’s treatment of asylum-seekers at an offshore detention center on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island, while underscoring Canberra’s responsibility ...