SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Wednesday it would enlist indigenous Aboriginal rangers to patrol its vast and remote northern coastline amid an influx of illegal fishing boats that have also ...
The United Nations Human Rights Committee found that Australia violated two provisions of the human rights treaty in cases involving 24 refugees and asylum seekers, including minors, who were ...
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 ...
It was reviewing two cases involving asylum seekers, including minors, who were kept at Australia’s notorious offshore processing centre in Nauru despite getting refugee status under the former ...
Although the number of boat arrivals is small, compared to 15,000 asylum seekers travelling to Australia by boat annually before the country set up an offshore processing scheme, the issue has ...