Forced hysterectomies in detention: Immediate and long-term responses to ICE abuse needed
On September 14, 2020, Project South and whistleblower Dawn Pooten filed a complaint with the US Department of Homeland Security alleging forced hysterectomies at an Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC),...
Brutality and false imprisonment – welcome to the UK!
On 8 June, BBC One aired a gripping drama based on the real life story of Anthony Bryan, one of the Windrush generation. After 50 years of living in England,...
Request for UN Inquiry into Italy’s role in the Torture of Migrants and Refugees Pulled-Back to Libya
Human rights violations of migrants and refugees intercepted in the Central Mediterranean, and detained in Libya, are well-documented. Reports on Italy’s active involvement in this pull-back practice are growing. Is...
Problems with prevailing defences for the repurposing of apartheid-legacy laws to discriminate against non-citizens
In 1964, the apartheid regime in South Africa introduced a new requirement for non-citizens seeking entry into the legal profession. To practice law, non-citizens had to acquire a permanent residence...
COVID-19 and the Curious Case of Continued Detention of ‘Foreigners’ in India
On 13 April 2020, the Supreme Court of India ordered that ‘foreigners’ who had been detained for at least two years in the state of Assam would be eligible for...
The Need for Empathy: Understanding India’s COVID-19 Lockdown (with Kalpana Kannabiran)
“The question really, for me, is not so much one of the degree of deference that courts should grant the State, but the degree of empathy the court demonstrates towards...
U.S. Department of Justice Creates Office to Denaturalize Immigrants
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last month that it had created a standalone denaturalization section to strip citizenship from naturalized immigrants, as part of the Trump administration’s broad...
The Impact of COVID-19 on World’s Refugees
While official responses to the novel COVID-19 have focused on domestic impacts of the virus, we cannot overlook its impact on humanitarian crises and displaced populations. With over 126 million...
The Human Right to Belong: Indigenous rights and sovereignty in Australia
In 2019, the Minister of Immigration tried to deport two Aboriginal men from Australia. One was born in Papua New Guinea, and the other in New Zealand. Although long resident...
High Court of Australia delivers landmark ruling that Indigenous Australians cannot be deported
On 11 February 2020, the High Court of Australia (HCA) delivered a landmark judgment in which it ruled that indigenous Australians cannot be considered “aliens” under the Australian Constitution and...
Teitiota v New Zealand: A Step Forward in the Protection of Climate Refugees under International Human Rights Law?
On 7 January 2020, the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) issued a landmark ruling in which it recognised, for the first time, that forcibly returning a person to a place...
Immigration Detention and the Dublin III Regulation (Part II/II)
In November, two important judgments were handed down concerning the legal regime governing immigration detention under the Dublin III Regulation; one by the Supreme Court and one by the High...
