Asylum Seekers / UN oversight body asked to rule on cruelty of Australian immigration detention Leading Australian human rights advocates have asked a UN oversight body visiting Australia to rule on whether treatment of asylum... 19 Oct 2022 Asylum Seekers / Activists Want The UN To Look Into Inhumane Use Of Handcuffs On Asylum Seekers The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is urging the United Nations torture watchdog to investigate Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers... 19 Sep 2022 Asylum Seekers / Being handcuffed for medical appointments left asylum seeker Yasir shaken. Why is it happening? Asylum seekers are being given the choice of being handcuffed on their way to medical appointments or missing out on... 19 Sep 2022 Asylum Seekers / Forum: Health Care Denied in Australian Immigration Detention Join an expert panel discussing barriers to health care experienced by asylum seekers in Australian immigration detention. About this event... 28 Nov 2021 Asylum Seekers / Commission concerned for detainees during COVID The Australian Human Rights Commission has again publicly called for the Commonwealth government to transfer into the community, those immigration... 20 Jul 2020 Asylum Seekers / Time for action on OPCAT PIAC welcomes the release of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s recommendations for how Australia should implement the Optional Protocol to... 2 Jul 2020 Asylum Seekers / Asylum seekers held in prison-like conditions for record periods People in Australia’s onshore immigration detention centres are now held for an average of about 500 days: an all-time high,... 20 Jun 2019 Asylum Seekers / Life saving medication secured for asylum seeker with Hepatitis C Legal action and strategic advocacy by PIAC’s Asylum Seeker Health Rights Project has ensured access to curative Hepatitis C medication... 5 Jun 2019 Asylum Seekers / Major breakthrough: Hepatitis C treatment secured for onshore detainees Asylum seekers with Hepatitis C in onshore detention will now have access to curative medication following advocacy by PIAC’s Asylum... 22 May 2019 Asylum Seekers / PIAC Welcomes Passage of MedEvac Bill PIAC welcomes the passage of the Home Affairs (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018 by Commonwealth Parliament. Otherwise known as the ‘MedEvac... 13 Feb 2019
