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UNHCR has made a number of submissions to parliamentary and other inquiries on issues related to migration and refugee policy in Australia and New Zealand.

Click here to view all UNHCR submissions for Australia and New Zealand.

Click here to view UNHCR's written submission to the High Court of Australia between Minister of Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (MIMIA) and QAAH 2004 and the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT); NBGM and Minister of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (MIMA) & RRT.

8 June 2006 (pdf 284Kb).

Click here to view UNHCR's submission on the Review of New Zealand's Immigration ACT 1987,
1 July 2006 (pdf 284Kb).

The following submissions outline UNHCR’s position on a number of policy issues in Australia. Click on the following categories for UNHCR's Parliamentary submissions and final reports.

Access to Courts

Biometric Testing

Cessation

Confidentiality in the Context of Refugee Status
Determination

Detention

Effective Protection

Excision

Family Unity

Human Trafficking

Ministerial Discretion

Off-shore Processing

Temporary Humanitarian Visa

Temporary Protection Visa

The "Seven Day Rule"

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Newsletter

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Newsletter
No 2/2005
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Newsletter
Regional Office Newsletter
No 1/2005
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Reform of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Defence & Trade Report
September 2005 (pdf 415Kb)

Click here for information on the human rights reform agenda.

UNHCR Position Papers
No. 1/2002
Detention of Asylum Seekers (pdf 389Kb)

No. 2/2002
Temporary Protection
(pdf 751Kb)

No. 1/2003
Cessation of refugee status - When is a refugee no longer a refugee? (pdf 290Kb)

No. 1/2004
The Principle of Effective Protection (pdf 261Kb)

Update 1/2004a
'Effective Protection' in Indonesia (pdf 59Kb)

Update 1/2005
'Effective Protection' in Malaysia (pdf 94Kb)
(Produced by UNHCR Kuala Lumpur, March 2005)

No. 1/2005
Gender persecution and refugees (pdf 264kb)

No. 2/2005
Complementary Protection (pdf 574Kb)

No. 1/2006
Reception Standards: Employment (pdf 563Kb)

For UNHCR's position on other policy questions in the region, see Parliamentary Submissions.

UNHCR Guidelines on the detention of asylum seekers

Refugee Protection in International Law
Papers on key issues in the interpretation of the 1951 Convention, published in one volume.