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 ...

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(CNN) — After three days with almost no food, Behrouz Boochani struggles to find the strength to write messages on his phone, but he fears if he doesn't the outrage will fall silent. An refugee from ...

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, ...

In light of the continued perilous situation on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island for refugees and asylum seekers abandoned by Australia, UNHCR has called again this week on the Australian government ...

Australia has long shown disregard for international conventions surrounding refugees. It labels asylum seekers in detention on Manus Island as “transferees”, also frequently referring to those who ...

A Sudanese refugee has been flown from Manus Island to Geneva to receive a prestigious human rights award but said he will soon return to Papua New Guinea. Fled Sudan as a teenager before being sent ...

Police entered a decommissioned immigration detention center on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea Thursday and destroyed property and the dwindling food and water supplies of 400 or so refugees who are ...

Bullets were fired directly into the Manus Island refugee centre on 14 April, putting the lives of refugees and asylum-seekers there in danger, new digital verification of images and videos has ...

The Royal Australian Navy reported that HMAS Choules has completed its mission at Manus Island and heads home today, October 31, 2013. Chief of Navy Vice Admiral Ray Griggs AO, CSC, RAN said HMAS ...

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A new policy to take refugees from Central America may be paving the way to solve the refugee problem on Manus Island and Nauru. Turnbull can show leadership in the current talks in New York by ...