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113. Ensure that all detained migrants are able to promptly contact their family,
consular services and legal counsel.
114. Develop comprehensive human rights training programmes for all staff who
work in such centres, including to provide them with the ability to identify detainees
exhibiting mental health problems.
115. Improve available mental health services in detention, based on the principle of
informed consent.
116. Provide on-site interpreters in immigration detention facilities, at least for
commonly spoken languages, so as to render health services and other services more
accessible and appropriate for detainees lacking English-language skills.
117. Adopt all necessary measures to ensure that stateless persons whose asylum
claims are refused and refugees with adverse security or character assessments are
not held in detention indefinitely, including by resorting to non-custodial alternatives
to detention.
118. Quickly close down the regional processing centres in Papua New Guinea and
Nauru and terminate the offshore processing policy, in order to remedy the systemic
human rights violations that this policy creates.
119. Immediately repatriate all children and families with children from regional
processing centres to mainland Australia and place them in communities with
appropriate child and family psychiatric care and appropriate support for their
integration in the school and social systems.
120. Find meaningful and timely resettlement options for all refugees in regional
processing centres, while respecting the right to family unity. Any agreement
regarding third-country resettlement must be meaningful in terms of numbers,
timeliness, and opportunities to rebuild one’s life, take into account particularly
vulnerable migrants, and respect Australia’s international humanitarian and human
rights obligations. Refugees and migrants who cannot be quickly resettled in a foreign
country must be repatriated without delay on Australian territory.
D.
Access to justice
121. Ensure the independent and systematic monitoring of all detention centres by
independent and competent oversight mechanisms, so that they are all brought to the
same standards. In order to foster accountability for human rights abuses, their
reports should be immediately made available to the public.
122. Ensure that reports of abuse in regional processing centres are properly
investigated by an independent and competent oversight mechanism, and that persons
found guilty are held accountable.
123. Allow the Australian Human Rights Commission to inquire at will in offshore
regional processing centres about the actions of Australian authorities and of service
providers.
124. Ensure full and proper access to justice for all detainees, including by means of
a more accountable system for lodging complaints within detention centres.
125.
Ensure that all detained persons who claim protection concerns are, without
delay, adequately informed of their right to seek asylum, and able to register their
asylum claim, and can communicate with UNHCR, lawyers and civil society
organizations.
126. Ensure that migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, whatever their status, have
easy access to competent lawyers, free of charge when needed, in order to challenge
any decision made that threatens their rights and freedoms, especially in expulsion,
detention and asylum procedures.
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