Race Discrimination
Anti-Asian Racism Resources
Explore the Commission's anti-racism resources addressing settler colonialism, systemic racism, and anti-Asian racism in Australia, featuring expert insights and community-led solutions.
Projects
Race Discrimination
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Immigration detention and human rights
The human rights of people who are in immigration detention are of special concern to the Commission. Liberty is a fundamental human right, recognised in major human rights instruments to which Australia is a party.
Rights and Freedoms
Australia's Third Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
Learn about how every five years, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) considers the progress of every country in the realisation of all human rights.
Rights and Freedoms
Free and Equal Conference
The Free and Equal conference was the centrepiece of a national conversation and once-in-a-decade event. The conference was held at the Hyatt Regency Sydney on Tuesday 8 October 2019.
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention - Index
National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014. Hearing transcripts, submissions and expert reports now available.
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Refugees with adverse security assessments
Refugees with adverse security assessments face indefinite detention.
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Transfer of asylum seekers to third countries
Learn how the Australian government introduced third-country processing for asylum seekers who came to Australia by boat without a valid visa in 2012.
Immigration detention, asylum seekers and refugees
The Commission seeks to ensure that the human rights of all people held in immigration detention in Australia are protected. The Commission has focused its recent immigration detention work on the conditions and treatment of asylum seekers, refugees and children, because they have specific...
Rights and Freedoms
Rights and freedoms - right by right
As part of the development of our new website we are developing pages on human rights scrutiny by reference to each area of rights and obligations set out in the main human rights treaties which have been developed by the international community and adopted by Australia in the years since the...
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Age assessment in people smuggling cases - Inquiry into the treatment of individuals suspected of people smuggling offences who say that they are children
You can explore an inquiry in to the treatment of individuals suspected of people smuggling offences who report that they are children.
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
A last resort? report of the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention (2004)
Explore a report by the Commission in relation to a national inquiry in to children being held in immigration detention.
Children's Rights