Nauru

There has been a dengue outbreak on Nauru but officials are yet to release information on the numbers affected.

An Australian human rights lawyer is welcoming the announcement that a Royal Commission will hold limited hearings into the sexual abuse of children detained on Nauru.

Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the deal for the United States to accept Canberra's refugees held on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and Nauru is not a people swap.

Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton says the first asylum seekers from detention camps on Manus Island and Nauru should travel to the United States over the next few months.

The Japanese government is giving two new tugboats and aquaculture equipment to Nauru.

New Zealand's Green Party says the Prime Minister should offer to take the 1200 refugees currently being held on Nauru and Manus Island if Australia's deal with the United States falls over.

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister says Sri Lankan asylum seekers living in Australian-run camps on Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island are welcome to return home.

Official Australian Government data about incidents at the country's immigration detention centre in Nauru has been censored as a result of a request from the Nauru Government.

The leader of a Pacific Islands Forum team reporting back to Nauru on its observations of last year's election says they have had a very productive visit.

A Pacific Islands Forum team is to join monitors of the Indonesian regional elections which start tomorrow.

US officials have stopped screening refugees on Nauru for potential resettlement, Australia has confirmed.

The Australian government says United States officials have stopped screening refugees from Nauru for potential resettlement in the US.

The lawyer representing about 900 men detained on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island says he will apply for a court injunction to stop any of the detainees from being deported.

An award winning cartoonist detained on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island is in a perilous state of health as his hunger strike enters a second week.

Australia's Human Rights Law Centre is joining calls for all refugees and asylum seekers on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and Nauru to be evacuated immediately and brought to Australia.

Amnesty International believes Australia's refugee deal with the US is dead in the water, despite indications from the White House that it will honour the agreement.

Protesters have marched in Sydney, Australia to protest against US President Donald Trump and Australia's Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and the treatment of refugees detained in camps on Manus…

US President Donald Trump will honour a US agreement with Australia to accept refugees housed on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and Nauru although he is unhappy about the deal.