Development Policy Centre Podcast

Australia currently holds or has contracted other countries to hold 3,052 people in immigration detention, including 50 children in Nauru (data from end March 2016). Most are from developing countries, including Iran, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, China and Afghanistan. The Global Detention Project is a Geneva-based non-government organisation formed in 2014 to investigate the use of immigration detention as a response to global migration. The Development Policy Centre’s Associate Director spoke with its Executive Director, Michael Flynn, shortly before the 14 June 2016 launch of the project’s new website and online database at the UN’S Geneva headquarters. Timed to coincide with a meeting of the Human Rights Council, the launch was based on a case study of Australia and its neighbours. Michael Flynn talks about the origins of the Global Detention Project and its plans for the future, Australia’s immigration detention policies and practices in a global context, and the role of international organisations in connection