To learn more about unnecessary immigration detention, see the following:
- IDC Fact Sheet: Immigration Detention (forthcoming)
- IDC Fact Sheet: Children in Immigration Detention
- Refworld: Detention
- International Commission of Jurists: Practitioner’s guide on migration and international human rights law
- UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants: Detention of migrants in an irregular situation (A/HRC/20/24)
Here you will find some useful links to find out more about immigration detention:
- UN Human Rights Committee
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
- UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants
- UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
- UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
- Global Detention Project