The fundamental flaws in our asylum policies
Keynote Speaker: Daniel Webb, Director of Legal Advocacy, Human Rights Law CentreDaniel leads much of the Centre’s work defending the rights of people seeking asylum and people in all forms of detention. Daniel’s recent work includes High Court challenges to the Australian Government’s offshore detention regime and its secretive detention of 157 people at sea beneath the deck of an Australian customs ship (CPCF), as well as the #LetThemStay campaign run in partnership with GetUp! and the Australian Churches for Refugees Taskforce.
Daniel has travelled to Manus Island twice to inspect the detention centre and transit facility. By investigating conditions on the ground he helped shine a light on the darkest corners of Australia’s immigration detention network.
Some key goals of the Human Rights Legal Centre:
1. To increase awareness and depth of understanding about the unsuitability of current offshore processing system
2. To continue to advocate through the judicial system for the 300-310 asylum seekers receiving medical care in Australia, seeking non-return to offshore processing
3. To offer constructive, humanitarian and sustainable solutions to what is a growing global problem
4. To be an independent advocate for those who endure unfair and uncertain incarceration, even though being a refugee is not a guilty offence.
5. To encourage regional Sovereign Country cooperation, establishing UN-endorsed refugee queues at known departure countries for timely and efficient processing in accordance with Internationally-agreed Refugee conventions
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