Immigration, asylum seekers and refugees
What’s new?
- Fact Sheet – The impact of bridging visa restrictions on human rights (2008)
- Media release: Refugee Week: Detention centre inspections to begin (18 June 2008)
- Media release: The end of temporary protection visas for refugees is a step forward for human rights (14 May 2008)
Information about immigration, asylum seekers and refugees
- Asylum seekers and refugees: questions and answers
- Immigration detention and human rights: questions and answers
Do you think you have been discriminated against, or had your human rights
breached, while in immigration detention?
See our Complaints page for information on how to make a complaint to HREOC.
Current projects
Inspections of immigration detention facilities
HREOC is in the process of conducting annual inspections of immigration detention facilities around Australia, including Christmas Island. A report of these inspections will be released later in the year.
Past projects and publications
- Submission about 457 visas to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration Inquiry into Temporary Business Visas (2007)
- Summary of Observations following the Inspection of Mainland Immigration Detention Facilities (2007)
- Summary of Observations following the Inspection of Mainland Immigration Detention Facilities (2006)
- Face the Facts (2005) - information about immigrants, refugees and Indigenous peoples
- A last resort?: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention (2004)
- Report on Visits to Immigration Detention Facilities by the Human Rights Commissioner (2001)
- Briefing Paper – Human Rights and International Law implications of Migration Bills (2001)
- Immigration Detention Guidelines (2000)
- Territorial Limits: Norfolk Island’s Immigration Act and human rights (1999)
- Those who’ve come across the seas: Detention of unauthorised arrivals (1998)
See also the Community Partnerships for Human Rights Program for projects related to asylum seekers and refugees.
