Immigration, asylum seekers and refugees
What’s new?
- 2009 Immigration detention and offshore processing on Christmas Island (October 2009)
- Submission on the Migration Amendment (Complementary Protection) Bill 2009 (September 2009)
- Submission to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works on the Proposed Redevelopment of the Villawood Immigration Detention Facility (September 2009)
- Australian Human Rights Commission welcomes the removal of the 45-day rule for bridging visas and abolition of immigration detention debt (September 2009)
- Inquiry into the Migration Amendment (Immigration Detention Reform) Bill 2009 (July 2009)
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?
Past projects and publications
- 2008 Immigration detention report: Summary of observations following visits to Australia's immigration detention facilities (January 2009)
- Complementary protection seminar: meeting Australia's obligations to people fleeing danger (November 2008)
- Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration Inquiry into immigration detention in Australia (August 2008)
- 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)
- 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)
For additional Commission projects relating to issues that may be faced by asylum seekers and refugees in the Australian community, see the Community Partnerships for Human Rights Program.
