Publications

2023

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

The Use of Hotels as Alternative Places of Detention

Overview The Australian Human Rights Commission conducts ongoing monitoring of conditions in detention to ensure that Australia’s immigration detention system complies with our obligations under international human rights law. Australia’s immigration authorities use hotels as Alternative Places of...

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Australia’s international obligations

Australia is obliged under international law to protect the human rights of all asylum seekers and refugees, regardless of how or where they arrive.

2022

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

The detention of refugees following visa refusal or cancellation under section 501 of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) (2022)

Report into arbitrary detention.

2020

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Inspections of Australia's immigration detention facilities 2019 Report

Human Rights Commissioner’s foreword For several decades, the Australian Human Rights Commission has expressed deep and longstanding concern about the human rights of people held in Australia’s immigration detention facilities. As a result of our most recent inspection process, that concern has...

2020

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Hamedani v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs) (2020)

Hamedani v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs) [2020] AusHRC 137 Report into arbitrary detention

2020

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Mr AP v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs)

Mr AP v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs) [2019] AusHRC 134 Report into complaint of arbitrary detention

2020

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

FZ v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs) (2019)

FZ v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs) [2019] AusHRC 135 Report into use of force against Mr FZ in immigration detention

2019

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Use of force in immigration detention

The issue of the use of force in immigration detention has been raised in a range of complaints against the Department of Home Affairs received by the Commission. This report deals thematically with 14 complaints.

2019

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Mr IB and Mr IC v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs) (2019)

Report into arbitrary detention

2019

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Mr BP, Ms BQ and Miss BR v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs) (2019)

Report into complaint of breach of non-refoulement obligations, arbitrary interference with family and failure to consider the best interests of the child

2019

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Ms HM and Master YM v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs)

Ms HM and Master YM v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs) [2018] AusHRC 127 Report into arbitrary interference with family and failure to consider the best interests of the child Introduction to this inquiry This is a report setting out the findings of the Australian Human Rights...

2019

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Ms BK, Ms CO and Mr DE on behalf of themselves and their families v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs)

The Australian Human Rights Commission has conducted an inquiry into three complaints arising from the practice of the Australian Government of sending to Nauru families with young children who arrived in Australia seeking asylum.

2019

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Lives on hold: Refugees and asylum seekers in the 'Legacy caseload' (2019)

This report examines the human rights implications of policies affecting asylum seekers in the ‘Legacy Caseload’.

2019

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Risk management in immigration detention (2019)

This report examines the human rights implications of current risk management practices in immigration detention. It is based on information gathered during inspections of four immigration detention facilities conducted in the second half of 2018.

2018

Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Australian Human Rights Commission Inspection of Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre: Report (2018)

This report contains an overview of key observations and concerns arising from the Australian Human Rights Commission’s inspection of the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre (CIIDC) in August 2017