Immigration detention, asylum seekers and refugees
Explore the human rights of people held in immigration detention in Australia, including asylum seekers and refugees, and how the Commission protects their
Summary
The Commission seeks to ensure that the human rights of all people held in immigration detention in Australia are protected. The Commission has focused its recent immigration detention work on the conditions and treatment of asylum seekers, refugees and children, because they have specific vulnerabilities and are given special protections under international law.
The Commission seeks to ensure that the human rights of all people held in immigration detention in Australia are protected. The Commission has focused its recent immigration detention work on the conditions and treatment of asylum seekers, refugees and children, because they have specific vulnerabilities and are given special protections under international law.
What's new?
Asylum seekers, refugees and human rights: snapshot report 2013 (22 October 2013)
Casenote: FKAG v Australia and MMM v Australia (15 October 2013)
Opinion piece: Australia, Human Rights, Refugees and Asylum Seekers , by Professor Gillian Triggs, President (August 2013)
News: Regional Resettlement Arrangement raises human rights questions (25 July 2013)
Tell Me About: The 'Enhanced Screening Process' (26 June 2013)
Speech delivered to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship by Professor Gillian Triggs, President (25 June 2013)
Click on the links below for information about:
The Commission's role
Asylum seekers and refugees in Australia
The transfer of asylum seekers to third countries
Immigration detention and human rights
Children in immigration detention
Immigration detention statistics
What alternatives there are to using closed immigration detention
Refugees with adverse security assessments
People suspected of people smuggling who say they are children
The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT)
The Commission's work on immigration detention, asylum seekers and refugees:
Submissions
Speeches, events and media
Immigration detention reports and photos
Reports of complaints
Fact sheets and other publications
Major publications:
Human rights standards for immigration detention (2013)
An age of uncertainty: Inquiry into the treatment of individuals suspected of people smuggling offences who say that they are children (2012)
A last resort? report of the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration (2004)
Those who've come across the seas: Detention of unauthorised arrivals (1998)
