Immigration, asylum seekers and refugees
What’s new?
- Background paper: Immigration detention and visa cancellation under section 501 of the Migration Act (January 2009)
- Media Release: New report highlights ongoing problems in immigration detention (January 2009)
- 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)
- Face the Facts: Questions and answers about asylum seekers and refugees (October 2008)
- Submission to Joint Standing Committee on Migration Inquiry into Immigration Detention in Australia (August 2008)
- Factsheet: The impact of bridging visa restrictions on human rights (June 2008)
- Media release: The end of temporary protection visas for refugees is a step forward for human rights (May 2008)
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?
Click here for information about how to make a complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission
Past projects and publications
- 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.
