The Human
Rights Commissioner, Dr
Sev Ozdowski, announced the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's
National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention on 28 November
2001.
The Inquiry was
conducted throughout 2002. It received over 340 submissions and visited
all immigration detention centres in Australia.
Public hearings
were conducted in VIC, WA, SA, NSW and QLD. Amongst others, experts
with experience in dealing with children in detention gave oral testimony.
In addition, the Inquiry conducted confidential focus groups with former
detainee children and young people in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Sydney
and Brisbane.
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A last resort?
- The Report of the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
was tabled in Parliament on 13 May 2004
A
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Inquiry found that
children in Australian immigration detention centres have suffered numerous
and repeated breaches of their human rights.
In
its National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention Report-
A Last Resort?, tabled in Federal Parliament on 13 May 2004, the Commission
found Australia’s immigration detention policy has failed to protect
the mental health of children, failed to provide adequate health care
and education and failed to protect unaccompanied children and those
with disabilities.
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