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Asylum Seekers and Refugees
29 October 2025Media ReleaseHuman Rights Commissioner calls for transparency in Nauru deportation arrangementÂ
Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner has warned that the first deportation to Nauru under Australia’s new deportation deal exposes a disturbing lack of transparency and raises serious human rights concerns.  -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
14 July 2025Submission
Externalisation of Migration and the Impact on the Human Rights of Migrants
The ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ has made a submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, ahead of his forthcoming report to the UN General Assembly on the externalisation of migration and its impact on migrant rights . This submission outlines the Commission’s serious concerns regarding Australia’s externalisation policies, including offshore -
Business and Human Rights
7 July 2025E-bulletin (Monthly)President's message | July 2025
Dear friends, Without truth there can be no justice. On Tuesday, the Yoorrook Justice Commission’s remarkable four-year journey ended with the publication of its final reports and public record. Yoorrook was the first formal truth-telling inquiry into injustices against First Peoples in Victoria. Led by four First Peoples Commissioners and a non-Indigenous Commissioner, it changed Victoria… -
Business and Human Rights
25 June 2025Submission
Call for Input on Country visit to Australia
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Business and Human Rights
13 March 2025Opinion piece
Five years since COVID-19, there are lessons we must act on
The pandemic’s exposure of deep inequalities highlights the urgent need for human rights-centred emergency responses. -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
19 February 2025Media Release
Human Rights Commissioner says NZYQ Nauru resettlement announcement raises more questions than it answers  
Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner has written to Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke seeking clarity and transparency around an Australian Government decision to resettle three members of the NZYQ cohort in Nauru, saying the announcement raises serious human rights concerns and prompts more questions than it answers. -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
12 December 2024Opinion piece
Women in immigration detention are trapped in a system designed for men. Many have not hugged a family member in years
In an opinion piece published in The Guardian, Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay Commissioner Finlay describes the harrowing experiences faced by many women in immigration detention and calls for urgent reform to address these human rights failures. It follows the release of the AHRC report into the issue. -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
9 December 2024Media Release
Women in immigration detention at serious risk of harassment and violence
The ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ has called for significant reform to the country’s immigration detention system, after a new report into the treatment of women in detention found their rights, safety and wellbeing are being widely overlooked. These failures, it found, are compounding the risk to women of harassment, violence, and ill health. -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
2 December 2024Publication
'Not Just An Afterthought’ - Women in Immigration Detention Report
The ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ has called for significant reform to the country’s immigration detention system, after a new inspection report into the treatment of women in detention found their rights, safety and wellbeing are being widely overlooked.
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