Last week, an Australian-run offshore detention center housing hundreds of asylum seekers was closed down on Manus Island, a small key of Papua New Guinea. New facilities set up to receive them, ...

(CANBERRA, Australia) — Papua New Guinea authorities said Friday they had relocated the last asylum seekers who had refused for three weeks to leave a closed immigration camp for fear they would face ...

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, ...

The Australian government has agreed to pay detainees on Manus Island more than $70 million (US$52.75 million) in the "largest settlement in a human rights class-action" in the country's history. The ...

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 ...

Thank you for the chance to briefly update you on UNHCR observations from our latest mission to Manus Island (Papua New Guinea). What stood out the most from this mission at the time we were there, ...

More than 400 asylum seekers and refugees still lived in a former Australian detention center in Papua New Guinea when it was stormed by local police on Thursday. The refugees have been urged to move ...

Asylum seekers detained on Manus Island modify a man-made well on Nov. 3, 2017. Last week, an Australian-run offshore detention center housing hundreds of asylum seekers was closed down on Manus ...