Nauru

Sprent Dabwido, a former President of Nauru, died yesterday at the age of 46. While in office, he reached agreement with Australia to re-open Nauru’s…

Two recent awards highlight Australia’s notorious off shore detention camps. A Kurdish journalist has won Australia’s richest literary prize for a book he…

An annual report on the state of civic freedoms around the world has downgraded two countries in the Asia-Pacific for interference with freedom of the…

Yesterday, we reported that an election result in Australia over the weekend may have broken the deadlock on the transfer of at least some refugees held…

Over the weekend, voters in a parliamentary district outside Sydney handed the government a stinging defeat. The loss of the once safe seat will force…

Last week, while Nauru hosted the annual summit of the Pacific Islands Forum, the government suffered an important legal setback. A judge dismissed all…

Next week, leaders from around the Pacific will gather for the annual Pacific Islands Forum Summit, to be held this year in the tiny island nation of…

Nauru, the host of this year’s Pacific Islands Forum, has barred Australia’s ABC from covering the annual summit. A government statement charged the ABC…

As U.S. officials continue the slow process of resettlement for refugees in Australia’s off-shore detention camps, two incidents this month illustrate the…

The justice system of the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru is in an uproar after the government abandoned its appeals system, without setting up a…