Some young people are taken to immigration detention as they approach their 18th birthday.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Scott Morrison unveiling tough new proposals to strip extremists of their Australian citizenship.
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Australia is proposing some of the toughest citizenship stripping laws in the world as it steps up efforts to curb extremist attacks - but the proposed law could run into significant legal hurdles
Sirley Silveira Paixao, an immigrant from Brazil seeking asylum, kisses her 10-year-old son Diego Magalhaes, after he is released from immigration detention in Chicago on July 5, 2018.
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Psychotropic medication is 'pharmaceutical violence' against migrant children and other incarcerated youth throughout the United States. Drug addiction is one consequence.
A protest outside Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre in 2015.
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The UK government presents itself as a pioneer in tackling modern slavery, but it doesn't allow victims to remain legally in the UK. Time is apt for the system to be overhauled.
While the UK does not indefinitely detain children, there are cases where minors are held – and in extreme cases, separated from their parents.
Villawood Detention Centre, NSW. There are currently 200 asylum seeker children in detention, in Australia and offshore.
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The experiences of women in Canada's immigration detention system reveal emotional distress, and even violence, before, during and after incarceration.
Yarl’s Wood, during a 2015 public protest.
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Even if their partners or children are British, non-European men with precarious immigration status face potentially permanent separations from their families.
BBC Panorama went undercover at Brook House, near Gatwick Airport.
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BBC Panorama has exposed violence and abuse of detainees at Brook House immigration removal centre.
The decision reveals the striking breadth of the government’s power to deal with asylum seekers and refugees in ways that directly contravene international law.
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The Australian government had and has the power to do things necessary to establish and maintain its immigration detention facility on Manus Island, despite detention violating PNG law.
Migration legislation does not require judicial authorisation for a person to be deprived of their freedom.
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Recent developments in the US suggest it might be time for Australia to rethink its reliance on private prisons.
Health professionals may be sentenced to two years in jail for the unauthorised disclosure of information about conditions in detention centres.
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Hunger strikes have swept immigration centres in recent weeks. Is this problem being taken as seriously as it could be?
Hamid Kehazaei’s death shows asylum seekers Australia detains are excluded from the ethical principles on which medicine and our health system are based.
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The news that Hamid Kehazaei, a 24-year-old Iranian asylum seeker detained on Manus Island, has been diagnosed as brain dead following his transfer to the Mater Hospital in Brisbane is a tragedy. That…