The Australian government violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, many of them minors, on the remote Pacific island of Nauru, even after they were granted refugee status ...

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A senior official of the European Investment Bank says the regional lending agency is keen to double its funding for ...

A newspaper’s rejection of an advertisement calling Israel’s war in Gaza “genocide” underscores the debate over the term.

Gideon Kibet had just stepped off a bus on Christmas Eve when four masked men surrounded him and forced him into a car. The ...

The UN Human Rights Committee found 24 young detainees on Nauru experienced “cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment”. But are ...

Australia violated the rights of asylum seekers arbitrarily detained on the island of Nauru, a UN watchdog ruled Thursday, in ...

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Normal public transit agency, claiming she was discriminated on the basis of her sex and her employer failed to accommodate ...

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