Nauru

Refugee advocates are concerned for a Sri Lankan asylum seeker on Nauru who has been jailed after he attempted to commit suicide at the detention centre there.

Nauru police are reported to have arrested an Iranian asylum seeker who staged a nine-hour protest on top of a crane on Friday.

Nauru's former chief justice says Australia's response to the democratic crisis in Nauru has been "pathetic". Audio

Australia has secretly transferred a fifth refugee from Nauru to Cambodia under a deal costing Australian taxpayers US$39.6 million dollars.

Australia is replacing its high commissioner in Nauru, with career diplomat, John Donnelly, to take up the post next month.

Nauru's former resident magistrate says there's a climate of fear in the country.

Nauru's leaders are mocking New Zealand's efforts to engage with them, a lawyer for a Nauru MP says.

Nauru's government says one lawyer has been granted access to the country to represent one of the suspended opposition MPs, but it has rejected the applications of two others.

Australia's Refugee Action Coalition says no action was taken in Nauru after a bus driver assaulted and injured an asylum seeker.

Nauru's opposition MPs, fighting for their day in court, are still waiting to see whether their lawyers will be granted visas to enter the country.

Samoa are claiming underdog status ahead of this weekend's Oceania Sevens Championship in Auckland.

Three Nauru opposition MPs, who are still waiting for their day in court five months after being charged over an anti-government protest, have finally got one of their three lawyers accredited.

Four babies have been born to asylum seeker and refugee mothers on Nauru over the past three weeks.

Australia has come under global fire for its boat turnback and offshore detention policies at a UN Human Rights Council performance review in Geneva.

Australia's former prime minister has defended her government's asylum seeker policies and the re-opening of detention centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.

Australasia's largest specialist medical college, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, has joined the call for a high risk pregnant asylum seeker on Nauru to be transferred to Australia.