immigration detention

Archive of posts tagged 'immigration detention'

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...

Asylum Seekers / Submission to Inquiry into the Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020

PIAC recommends that the Bill not be passed. The proposed powers to prohibit mobile phones in immigration detention and to...

Asylum Seekers / Commonwealth Ombudsman to report on COVID-19 responses in detention facilities

Asylum Seekers / Asylum seekers lodge claim to address detention virus fears

News / Asylum seekers lodge claim to address detention virus fears

Asylum Seekers / COVID-19: Group complaint for asylum seekers at risk in immigration detention calls for urgent investigation

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre has today filed a group complaint with the Commonwealth Ombudsman for 13 men in Australian...

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,...

Asylum Seekers / Five things you may not know about health care and immigration detention

Did you know that every day asylum seekers in Australian onshore detention centres are suffering without a basic, enforceable right...