Archive of posts in the 'Asylum Seekers' category
Leading Australian human rights advocates have asked a UN oversight body visiting Australia to rule on whether treatment of asylum...
PIAC’s work with people in immigration detention shows the overuse of handcuffs is preventing people in onshore immigration detention from...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is urging the United Nations torture watchdog to investigate Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers...
Asylum seekers are being given the choice of being handcuffed on their way to medical appointments or missing out on...
PIAC made a submission to the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or...
The United Nations’ torture prevention watchdog has been urged to investigate Australia’s use of handcuffs on asylum seekers when seeking...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says a comprehensive review of handcuffing in Australia’s onshore immigration detention system is urgently...
Public Interest Advocacy Centre reports have found that adequate health care had not been delivered to Medevac refugees, particularly regarding...
Following advocacy by PIAC, a refugee with a painful health condition has finally received treatment after an almost three-year ordeal....
Lucy Geddes, PIAC Senior Solicitor, discusses the onus on our Government to provide medical care to those in asylum detention.