While advocates celebrate Australia's one millionth permanent humanitarian visa, experts also say Australia needs to reassess ...

During the war (and the lead-up to it), many countries were unwilling to help those fleeing persecution. In 1939, for example, the United States shamefully denied landing to the St Louis, a German ...

Australia is set to issue its one millionth refugee visa since 1947 in the coming weeks, in a humanitarian program that grew directly out the ashes of World War II.

Asylum seekers need safer pathways to protection and Australia should stop treating those who arrive by boat differently. The nation has a reputation as one of the world's most successful ...

GENEVA, 26 August (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency said on Friday that a review of Australian measures for asylum-seekers arriving by boat announced this month had raised serious protection questions.

Australia is set to issue its one millionth permanent humanitarian visa since the end of World War II as early as the end of this year. The milestone has prompted celebration over the immense ...

Over the last two decades, Australia has made a name for itself by pursuing barbaric policies towards refugees and asylum seekers arriving by sea. Priding these moves as noble and humanitarian, ...

GENEVA, Feb. 1 (UNHCR) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Friday welcomed the end of protests by asylum seekers in Australia's Woomera detention centre, but urged the government in ...