Asylum Seeker Resources

Reports

Amnesty International report on Guantanamo Bay, 13 May 2005

An important report from the Edmund Rice Centre: Deported to Danger describing the danger to which failed asylum seekers have been returned by Australia, sometimes because Australia provides those people with false papers in order to remove them from the country.  This report adds to the record of Australia’s failure to adhere to basic humanitarian standards.

Comrie Report on the detention and unlawful removal of Vivian Alvarez Solon

HREOC report into Children in Detention: our “family friendly” nation

Human Rights Commission report on Australia's detention camps: our national disgrace

Human Rights Watch have just produced a damning report on Australia: depressing reading

Palmer Report on the detention of Cornelia Rau (1.2Mb pdf file – may take a couple of minutes to load)

UN Working Group report on arbitrary detention in Australia

Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre: Report on Nauru, the blighted home of Australia’s “Pacific Solution”

Court Decisions

Full Federal Court requires Government to prove removal safe: QAAH v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs

Federal Court judge exposes DIMIA’s inadequate care for mental health of detainees: S v Secretary of DIMIA

Detention of children constitutional: re Woolley 8^th October 2004

Indefinite detention– al Khateb, al Khafaji 6^th August 2004

Inhumane conditions in detention constitutionally valid: Behrooz 6^th August 2004

Failed refugee applicants can be removed regardless of the risk that they will self-harm or suicide: Federal Court decision in WAJZ, decided 14 October 2004

Recent case on the rights of people held in custody: Re Rigoli [2005] VSCA 325

Memos

Baxter: Australia's "Family friendly" detention camp - a brief eye-witness account

Legality of Immigration Detention

Other

A letter to the Australian public from the Sri Lankan asylum seekers on Nauru

A layperson’s guide to aspects of refugee law

Artists helping refugees: visit Kate Durham’s website

Emmanuel Ortiz: a poem for September 11

From Nothing to Zero: letters from asylum seekers in Australia’s detention centres, published by Lonely Planet.

Justice for Asylum Seekers publish A Better Way to treat refugees

Letter writing campaign: getting politicians to come clean about our refugee policy

Malcolm Fraser’s on-line petition: End Australia’s Detention of Children (now closed)

News Overboard: a fascinating and timely book by Iain Lygo

RAR: Myths and Facts about mandatory detention and Petro Georgiou’s private member’s bill

Response to deportation of Asylum Seekers: 20 November 2002, St Mary's cathedral

Schools resource kit: finding out about human rights in Australia

Speech: Justice Marcus Einfeld: "Wake up Australia: the new world order - the human dimension"

Submission to HREOC enquiry  into Children in Detention

Use of language analysis in assessing refugee claims; compare with the guidelines for proper use of language analysis.

Aust Lawyers for Human Rights site

Refugee research materials

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

U. Minnesota Refugees Library

Conventions & Treaties

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

ICCPR

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Refugees Convention

Torture Convention

Geneva Convention on treatment of prisoners of war

UN website

UNHCR website

Amnesty International website