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Complaints

Prisoners

Current Issues in Prison Management

Summary

Learn more about the Australian Human Rights Commission's summary of issues in Australian adult corrections and youth detention.
Learn more about the Australian Human Rights Commission's summary of issues in Australian adult corrections and youth detention.

Australia's Sixth Periodic Review

Summary

Learn more about the Commission's update to the Committee against Torture on the implementation of recommendations from their Concluding Observations.
Learn more about the Commission's update to the Committee against Torture on the implementation of recommendations from their Concluding Observations.

Forum to end mistreatment of people with disability in detention

Learn more about the National Forum on Cruel, Degrading and Inhumane Treatment of People with Disability and Mental Health Disorders in Detention.

Judicial review of lawfulness of detention (2013)

Summary

The Australian Human Rights Commission provides this response to the questionnaire from the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in relation to judicial review of the lawfulness of detention.

The Australian Human Rights Commission provides this response to the questionnaire from the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in relation to judicial review of the lawfulness of detention.

OPCAT: Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture

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(OPCAT) is an international agreement aimed at preventing torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.