Meanwhile, the Saudi government continues its campaign to appear "progressive".
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Human Rights For All calls on the Department of Home Affairs and Immigration to immediately ensure that the safety of transgender people in immigration detention is prioritised and that the profiling and targeting of transgender people at border entry points is ceased.

This is unacceptable, and allows for a range of risks to the safety and wellbeing of transgender detainees (both male and female).

The Australian Human Rights Commission’s recent report on the experience of women in immigration detention highlighted that “during the inspection, the Commission was advised that the Department ‘does not have current guidelines that specifically outline the management of transgender detainees.”

In particular, Border Force’s focus on women who they believe are part of the Asian sex worker community (or believe they are being trafficked to be part of it) through its “Operation Inglenook” unfairly targets trans women who have legitimate reasons for visiting or staying in Australia.

The ABC reporting on recent cases of transgender women being profiled at border entry and detained despite valid tourist visas, over-surveilled within detention, being detained in male detention quarters until late last year, and feeling unsafe from both Serco staff and male detainees is horrifying.

Human Rights For All has been fighting this since 2018 and is horrified that this is happening under a Labor government.

A gay Afghan man with complex PTSD and a history of torture can be deported to an African country where he doesn’t speak the language and faces homophobic attitudes and social isolation. The only reason he is there is the $$$$$$ paid by the Australian taxpayer.

An Iranian scientist could be refused entry to deliver a keynote address at a global conference in Sydney because her government refuses to take asylum seekers (no relation to her) who are too fearful to return.

A person who has served their sentence in prison and been warehoused in detention for years can be traded to a country for $$ because they can’t be returned to their country of birth. Then that country could deport or detain them at will.

Mobile phones will be confiscated from people in detention to avoid trafficking drugs into detention. In the process, all means of private communication are stripped away.

A single parent can be jailed for refusing deportation, while their citizen child stays in the community. Where exactly?

Alison also spoke of Australia's lack of action on people detained overseas. The Guardian's political editor, Karen Middleton, reports exclusively on Alison's visit to Geneva.

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...(s 198(2A) of the Act) and the impossibility of return to his country of origin. “On that basis, I find it difficult to understand how the Minister cannot accept that the applicant will suffer very real prejudice if the application for leave is not granted”.