Focus on Immigration Detention

The theme of the first report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants will be immigration detention; it is scheduled for presentation to the Human Rights Council in June 2012. Below are examples from some of the organizations that responded to the call:

• Immigration Detention Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (International Detention Coalition, Feb. 2012) [text]
• Report to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants: Detention of Migrants in the United States (Advocates for Human Rights & the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Jan. 2012) [text]
• Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants: Immigration Detention in the UK (Detention Action UK, Jan. 2012) [text]
• Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants on the Situation of Immigration Detention in South Africa (Lawyers for Human Rights, Jan. 2012) [text]

Other detention-related items:

Broken System: A Look at U.S. Immigration Detention (Human Rights First, Feb. 2012) [access]

- Podcast report.

"Immigration Detention: Some Issues of Inequality," The Equal Rights Review, vol. 7 (Aug. 2011) [full-text]

Immigration Detention in Australia (Parliamentary Library, Australia, Jan. 2012) [text]

"Measures of First Resort: Alternatives to Immigration Detention in Comparative Perspective,"The Equal Rights Review, vol. 7 (Aug. 2011) [full-text]

Upcoming events:

Campaign to End the Immigration Detention of Children, International Detention Coalition [info]

- Official launch in March 2012; show your support for the campaign by completing the endorsement form available via the link.

Detention of Immigrants: Enforcement, Non-compliance, and Punishment, Geneva, 8 March 2012 [info]

- Presentation by the author of Immigration Detention: Law, History, Politics (Cambridge Univ. Press, Dec. 2011).

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.