Nauru

Nauru says an Australian medical team will be sent to Nauru to operate on the broken arm of a refugee boy.

Amnesty International is using the findings of a new report to express concerns for the safety of four refugees transferred to Cambodia under an agreement with Australia.

Four refugees who had been in the Australian detention camps in Nauru have now arrived in Cambodia.

Cambodia is today expecting the arrival of four refugees who are the first to agree to take part in a resettlement deal brokered with Australia for transfer from Nauru.

The Nauru president is hailing the opening of a bank on the island - the first in 15 years - as a sign his government can get things done.

The Nauru government has branded a United Nations official a left-wing hypocrite, claiming he was wrong to criticise its new criminal amendments.

A whistleblower into the conditions of the Australian-run detention centre on Nauru says a new law restricting what immigration workers can say about the facilities is appalling.

Australia has passed a law criminalising whistleblowers who speak out against conditions at the offshore immigration detention centres.

A former high ranking official in the Nauru government is facing more legal blocks in his attempts to overturn his deportation.

The Refugee Action Coalition says refugees resettled on Nauru aren't getting the health care they need.

Those working in Australia's detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island, including NGOs and doctors, could soon face jail time for speaking out about what they have seen in the course of their work.

The president of Nauru has told a UN agency that Facebook has been used to create tension within families and it's a key reason it was banned.

Facebook says it remains concerned about a ban imposed on its services by the Nauru government.

The Nauru government claims it is not blocking internet access but it confirms it has temporarily banned Facebook to ensure there is no promotion of child pornography.

A group of NGOs has written a letter to the Nauru government calling on it to restore full access to internet services and repeal a new law which restricts freedom of expression.

The head of Amnesty International says the group has been denied access from inspecting conditions at Australia's detention centre on Nauru.

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians says Australia's policy of mandatory detention of asylum seekers must end.

Despite earlier denials, there are now reports Nauru police are investigating the alleged sexual abuse of an Iranian asylum seeker.