Leading civil society organisations working with people who have been detained in Australia’s immigration detention system have raised concerns over...
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...
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...
Lucy Geddes, PIAC Senior Solicitor, discusses the onus on our Government to provide medical care to those in asylum detention.
Leading legal and human rights organisations have joined together to call for an immediate end to the mandatory detention of...
