NAURU, Sept 21 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency will begin screening asylum seekers on the remote Pacific island of Nauru on September 24, a process which could bring the stranded people a step closer ...

NAURU (AP) — Shaped like a peanut and smaller than some big-city airports, this tropical Pacific island has an unusual history. Thanks to rich deposits of a fertilizer ingredient, Nauru’s 11,000 ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The mental health of refugees detained by Australia on the Pacific island of Nauru has deteriorated so badly that some children are in a "semi-comatose state", unable to eat, drink ...

IT WAS the tiny island nation that was one of the richest in the world, but now unemployment is rife. And it relies on one thing to survive. It became a remote mining outpost in the early 1900s thanks ...

The Australian Labor government is intensifying its anti-refugee regime, in line with draconian measures by governments globally to demonise people fleeing war, persecution and impoverishment—making ...

Man who murdered his wife loses landmark appeal against being deported to tiny island nation - Eight men have been resettled in Nauru so far under the deal that has been criticized in Australia as bei ...

Under the Albanese Labor government, Australia is again spearheading the global mistreatment and denial of basic democratic and legal rights to asylum seekers fleeing persecution, poverty and war.

Refugees held in an Australian camp in Papua New Guinea that is slated to close this month have been offered the option of moving to another detention centre on the island of Nauru. Under Canberra's ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The mental health of refugees detained by Australia on the Pacific island of Nauru has deteriorated so badly that some children are in a "semi-comatose state", unable to eat, drink ...