Christmas Island CCTV security room

The severity of Australian practices in detaining children, men, and women indefinitely held in camps run by private security corporations was made public by several reports. After inspecting mainland Australian detention camps, Louis Joinet, head of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNHCR, 2002), 

ABC Radio Broadcast (2002). Christmas Island detention centre. 4 June. Retrieved July 30,2008, from wwwislandcare.otg.ex/Earthbeat.htm 

Amnesty International Australia. (2007). Christmas Island looks and feels like a prison. Retrieved November 6,2008, from www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/16449/ Report 12 

Australian Human Rights Commissiort (AHRC). (2004). A last resort National inquiry into children in immigration detention. Sydney AHRC. 

Australian Human Rights Commission. (2007). Immigration detention centres. Sydney AHRC. Retrieved December 4, 2008, from www.humanrights.gov.au/human rights/immigration/ 

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