which monitors the legally-binding 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and was asked to consider a complaint by a group of refugees, found that Australia had violated two ...

SYDNEY, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Dozens of refugees who arrived in Australia by boat a decade ago and expected to resettle in the United States have been affected by the Trump Administration's freeze on ...

GENEVA/SYDNEY (Reuters) - A U.N. committee found that Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, including minors, on the remote Pacific island of Nauru even ...

Gillian Triggs says a “politically fraught” inquiry into children in detention was “the right thing to do legally and morally ...

citing "deteriorating human rights" for women and girls in Afghanistan. The policy has drawn accusations of hypocrisy given Australia will play Afghanistan at World Cups and other major global ...

Afghanistan have been allowed to retain ICC membership, despite not fulfilling the requirement to commit to developing ...

citing "deteriorating human rights" for women and girls in Afghanistan. The policy has drawn accusations of hypocrisy given Australia will play Afghanistan at World Cups and other major global ...

A few miles from the Melbourne Cricket Ground where Australia and England started the women's Ashes test on Thursday, a group of Afghan refugee cricketers played their first match as a team since ...