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Author: Australian Human Rights Commission

Title: Immigration Detention and Offshore Processing on Christmas Island

Summary: This report contains a summary of observations by the Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) following its July 2009 visit to Australia’s immigration detention facilities on Christmas Island. It follows the Commission’s 2006, 2007 and 2008 annual reports on inspections of immigration detention facilities. In early 2008, the Commission commended the Australian Government for ending the so-called ‘Pacific solution’ by closing the offshore immigration detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island. Since then, the government has initiated further positive reforms, in particular the July 2008 announcement of ‘New Directions’ for Australia’s immigration detention system. However, despite these positive changes, the Commission has ongoing concerns – one of the most critical being the mandatory detention and offshore processing of asylum seekers on Christmas Island. While there are clearly significant efforts being put into the detention and offshore processing system on Christmas Island, those efforts cannot overcome the fundamental problems with the system itself.

Details: Sydney: Australian Human Rights Commission, 2009. 53p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 11, 2011 at: http://www.hreoc.gov.au/human_rights/immigration/idc2009_xmas_island.pdf

Year: 2009

Country: United States

URL: http://www.hreoc.gov.au/human_rights/immigration/idc2009_xmas_island.pdf

Shelf Number: 120570

Keywords:
Illegal Immigrants (Australia)
Immigrant Detention
Immigration