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Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Immigration detention and human rights

The human rights of people who are in immigration detention are of special concern to the Commission. Liberty is a fundamental human right, recognised in major human rights instruments to which Australia is a party.
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Asylum Seekers and Refugees

National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention - Index

Inquiry publications: Report - The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014 (2015) ( h ard copies are available from the Commission's offices at Level 3, 175 Pitt Street, Sydney) Summary factsheet - The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in...
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Immigration detention, asylum seekers and refugees

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...
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Childrens Rights

National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention

The Australian Human Rights Commission’s (then known as the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission) National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention was announced on 28 November 2001. The Inquiry was conducted throughout 2002. It received over 340 submissions and visited all...