Sentences with phrase «in immigration detention»
This year there have been two deaths in immigration detention centres.
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Some have received harsh treatment in immigration detention on their arrival here.
The report uses the concepts of the rule of law and access to justice to investigate the situation of people in immigration detention.
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention held a public meeting in Brisbane on 5th August 2002.
The Home Office puts a lot of work into making sure no - one finds out how many pregnant women they hold in their immigration detention centres.
The impact of those deprivations is currently being examined by the Human Rights Commission's inquiry into the harms suffered by the 1,000 - plus children currently detained in immigration detention facilities in Australia and Nauru.
We advise people who have been unlawfully detained in immigration detention centres.
Responding to «Injustices in Immigration Detention» written by Dr Anna Lindley of SOAS, the Chair of the Bar Andrew Langdon QC said:
Perla Lopez, 18, who immigrated from Mexico, said she was held in an immigration detention center in New Mexico after being detained by Border Patrol.
But since she had a student visa rather than a fiance visa to fit her new ten minute old status, she was detained in immigration detention for six months.
But six years on, although the numbers are lower than before, the government is still locking up unaccompanied children in immigration detention who it mistakenly thought were adults.
Without legal status, many families fear that they will be arrested and forced to endure harsh conditions in immigration detention centers until they're bailed out, can pay for a return flight, or are resettled.
In fourth place is an anonymous account from a guard in an immigration detention centre who explained why working in a system which detains people who have never committed a crime, keeps him up at night.
«When I was 16, my own father was deported after three - and - a-half years of being in immigration detention because he registered with NSEERs.»
Shadow immigration minister Damien Green said: «Until the government gets a grip on the prison overcrowding crisis, the problems will continue to spill over and cause dangerous tensions in immigration detention centres.»
Terminally ill people have been handcuffed as they died in immigration detention centres, according to a devastating new report
When Soli, an illegal Mexican immigrant, is put in immigration detention, her 1 - year - old son, Ignacio, enters the foster care system.
The ruling means hundreds of people may have been unlawfully detained — Medical Justice says it receives more than 1,000 referrals from among about 30,000 people held each year in immigration detention.
Ruling in Medical Justice v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWHC 2461 (Admin), Mr Justice Ouseley held that the statutory guidance «Adults at risk in immigration detention» used an unlawfully restrictive definition of «torture».
VANCOUVER and MONTRÉAL (February 12, 2015)- A year after Canadians learned of the death of Lucía Vega Jiménez in immigration detention, human rights organizations are concerned that there is still no oversight mechanism for the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
Hearing dates for the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention are available below.
«Injustices in Immigration Detention» is an independent report commissioned by the Bar Council, written by Dr Anna Lindley of SOAS.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people held in immigration detention, sometimes for years, are not entitled to periodic hearings to decide whether they may be released on bail.
At 31 March 2018, there were 1389 people in immigration detention facilities, including 1059 in immigration detention on the mainland and 330 in immigration detention on Christmas Island.
Over 50 immigration detainees — people who have committed no crime and had no trial — are held in the prison rather than in immigration detention centres.
In this case, those harmed included survivors of torture who came to the UK seeking asylum, only to face re-traumatisation from being locked up in immigration detention centres.
In the immigration detention centres dotted around Britain - the places no - one ever talks about where we hold people who have committed no crime - mass protests were kicking off.
Campaign groups like Women for Refugee Women, who have helped Mary, argue that too many people are unnecessarily held in immigration detention.
Millions of the poorest workers lifted out of paying income tax Children no longer locked up in immigration detention centres Thousands of schools better able to support children from the poorest backgrounds Millions of pupils with a free school meal to help them through the day And same sex couples, finally getting the freedom to marry the person they love And still more important than any of these victories for ordinary people was our willingness to enter into coalition at all.
An unclear or incomplete definition is likely to lead to more torture survivors being wrongly locked up in immigration detention.
Adequate legal aid for advice and representation for those held in immigration detention to challenge the loss of their liberty
«Meanwhile, legal aid cuts have left many vulnerable people, including those detained in immigration detention, without access to the help they need.»
They spoke under conditions of strict anonymity for an independent study commissioned by the Bar Council and published this week, Injustices in Immigration Detention, written by Dr Anna Lindley of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
These areas included immigration (save for asylum claims or work carried out for those in immigration detention); employment (except where there is a discrimination claim); education (except for Special Educational Needs work); welfare benefits (except for appeals to the Upper Tribunal and onwards); debt; clinical negligence for the majority of adults and children; and personal injury.
Consequently, the guidance saved victims of state - sponsored torture from being held in immigration detention but failed to protect victims of torture by traffickers, terrorists and other groups.
That study found that, since 2011, Canada has housed more than 200 Canadian minors in detention in Toronto's Immigration Holding Centre, alongside hundreds of formally detained non-Canadian children, and its authors recommended that Canada implement alternatives to the detention of children rather than confining them in immigration detention facilities or separating them from their detained parents.
The most recent report, «Invisible Citizens: Canadian Children in Immigration Detention,» was published in February.
The visit was part of the 2014 National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention..
Public hearings for the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention were held in Melbourne on 30th and 31st May 2002.
The Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs prepared a submission in response to the terms of reference of the Commission's Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention and to issues raised in the Background Papers.
Yet this week, the Federal Government and Opposition united to oppose the reporting of abuse of children in immigration detention, amongst things, prompting this series of tweets from Dr Andrew Weatherall (a doctor who cares for children):
, the report of the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention)
The symposium identified that children in immigration detention and Aboriginal children in out - of - home care were two groups requiring urgent and targeted attention.
An underlying question for participants was how much racism, at an institutional level and in the high levels of public support for tough approaches to asylum seekers, has to do with the treatment of children in immigration detention and if it helps in advocacy to raise racism as an issue.