The UN Human Rights Committee has asked Australia to provide compensation to the victims and to ensure similar violations do ...

Australia asked to pay compensation for violating rights of asylum seekers in Nauru camps - UN watchdog finds refugees and ...

The Australian government violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, many of them minors, on the ...

The Australian Home Affairs Department said it has been the government's consistent position that Australia does not exercise ...

A U.N. committee found that Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, including minors ...

Australia has been accused of trying to “escape its human rights responsibility” after a UN committee found it was ...

Two decisions from the UN Human Rights Committee say Australia remained responsible for the detention of asylum seekers in ...

The Committee addressed two cases involving refugees and asylum seekers subjected to prolonged and arbitrary detention under ...

Under Australia's immigration policies, those trying to reach the country by boat have been sent to detention centres — including on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru — for so-called ...

After introducing a hardline immigration policy over a decade ago, Australia started sending asylum seekers intercepted at sea to detention camps on Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island for ...

Under Australia's tough immigration policies, those attempting to reach the country by boat have been sent to detention centres - including on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru - for so ...