Refugee Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul said most of the refugees on Nauru who had been accepted by the United States as candidates for resettlement had initial interviews with U.S. officials ...

Australia is seeking to deport three people released under the NZYQ decision to the tiny Pacific nation in exchange for an ...

The national congress of Palau has said it "cannot accept" a United States proposal for the Pacific Islands nation to accept ...

As the steady stream of boats crossing the Channel continues, more refugee hotels are set up – and wealthier neighbourhoods ...

About 200 refugees on Nauru have undergone interviews and medical check-ups, while on Manus, some 70 had been through a similar process, Rintoul said.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday again offered to resettle 150 asylum seekers sent by Australia to offshore camps, including one in Nauru, a Pacific island nation where ...

GENEVA, September 26 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has voiced deep concern about an agreement signed on Friday under which Australia will relocate refugees currently being held on the Pacific island ...

Like that deal, Saturday's agreement denies genuine refugees arriving by boat the option of being resettled in Australia. Australia, in turn, will provide Nauru with A$29.9 million ($26.6 million ...

But refugee advocates slammed the prospect of asylum-seekers being returned to Nauru, from where allegations of abuses, including rape, have arisen.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, facing an imminent election, enlisted the help of the Pacific Island nation of Nauru in his hardline policy of denying asylum seekers arriving by boat the right to ...