The Australian government violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, many of them minors, on the remote Pacific island of Nauru, even after they were granted refugee ...

22, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: RECONCILING INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND STATE INTERESTS (2004), pp. 119-128 (10 pages) Abstract In Australia, asylum seekers either are detained in immigration detention centres or ...

Australia to Use Indigenous Rangers to Patrol Coast for Asylum Seekers By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Wednesday it would enlist indigenous Aboriginal rangers to patrol its ...

Australia violated the rights of asylum seekers arbitrarily detained on the island of Nauru, a UN watchdog ruled Thursday, in a warning to other countries intent on outsourcing asylum processing.

The UN Human Rights Committee has found Australia responsible for violating a human rights treaty by redirecting or transferring asylum seekers to the offshore detention facilities in the Republic ...