The Albanese Government has agreed to delay the deportation of a man to Nauru after he commenced legal proceedings on Friday. He is represented by the Human Rights Law Centre.
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Legal proceedings have today been filed for a man scheduled to be deported to Nauru on Monday, in the first exercise of the Albanese Government’s new third country deportation powers. The man is represented by the Human Rights Law Centre.
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The Human Rights Law Centre and refugee advocates have criticised the Albanese Government’s cruel attacks on migrant and refugee communities, after some of the most brutal migration laws Australia has seen in years were passed overnight.
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The Human Rights Law Centre will call for the Albanese Government to abandon its brutal deportation and surveillance laws, in evidence to a Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee inquiry this evening.
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A new joint report from the Human Rights Law Centre and the University of Melbourne: Prison to Deportation Pipeline has found that visa cancellations on ‘character grounds’ have increased tenfold in the last ten years.
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The High Court of Australia has today ruled that forcing people released from immigration detention to wear ankle bracelets and live under curfews is unconstitutional.
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As a twenty-four-hour protest led by refugees reaches 100 days, the Human Rights Law Centre is calling on the Albanese Government to provide permanent visas to the 8,500 people who have been stuck in visa uncertainty and limbo for the last 12 years.
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For 94 days refugee community members and activists, together with their allies, have camped in front of government offices demanding visa equality for people failed by the former Coalition Government’s broken ‘fast track’ refugee processing system. After a decade of limbo, they are calling for permanent visas to ensure safe futures for themselves and their families.
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A national coalition of over 40 community legal centres, unions, business groups, and faith, welfare and human rights organisations welcome the federal government’s introduction of groundbreaking reforms to reduce widespread migrant worker exploitation.
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Eleven years after former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced the introduction of mandatory offshore processing, the Albanese Government must change course and provide thousands of people who have suffered for over a decade dignity, safety and freedom, said the Human Rights Law Centre today.
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The High Court has dismissed a legal challenge to the Australian Government’s ongoing detention of people who cannot be forced to return to their country of citizenship, meaning that up to 200 people may remain indefinitely detained, said the Human Rights Law Centre today.
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The Human Rights Law Centre has condemned the Albanese Government for jeopardising the freedom and safety of thousands of people in the Australian community.
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The High Court will today hear a challenge to the Australian Government’s continued detention of people who cannot be forced to return to their country of citizenship.
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Refugee Women Action for Visa Equality (WAVE) and the Human Rights Law Centre will give evidence to a Parliamentary inquiry today calling for the Albanese Government’s dangerous and draconian proposed deportation laws to be rejected.
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The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Human Rights Law Centre and Democracy in Colour have denounced the Albanese Government’s rushed law that would further punish people who have been unlawfully held in indefinite immigration detention.
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The High Court is set to hear a challenge in April to the Australian Government’s continued detention of people who cannot be forced to return to their country of citizenship.
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The Human Rights Law Centre is calling on the Albanese Government to end the offshore detention regime, and evacuate all those who are still offshore to Australia, as the coronial inquest into the death of Faysal Ishak Ahmed begins today.
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The Human Rights Law Centre and Migrant Justice Institute welcome legislation passed this week that is the first critical step to upholding migrant workers’ rights at work.
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