I am trying to find legal decisions relating to immigration detention in the US (specifically involving people seeking asylum). Is the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights the most promising place to look? If so, does anyone have any tips on easy ways to navigate the decision archives?
Are there any key domestic decisions which refer to international human rights law?
On a similar note, what are the best/key NGO reports related to human rights/poor conditions in US immigration detention that have been published in recent years?
Many thanks!
Dear Laura, the full Treaty body database is available at: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/TBSearch.aspx?Lang=en; good luck with your reserach.
This report is on: "Arbitrary Detention of Asylum Seekers and U.S. Commitments under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)" and may partially address your questions about international law:
https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/RPP-ICCPR-submission.pdf
See also this:
https://www.law.yale.edu/system/files/area/center/schell/document/human_rights_first_-_immigration_detention_-_final_-_20160620_for_publication.pdf
For specific cases, you may want to use key words to search case law in this database:
http://www.refworld.org/type,CASELAW,,USA,,,0.html
Some reports specifically dealing with the detention of asylum seekers in the USA are:
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/us-detention-asylum-seekers-and-human-rights
http://www.cvt.org/sites/cvt.org/files/Report_TorturedAndDetained_Nov2013.pdf
https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/090429-RP-hrf-asylum-detention-report.pdf
This article includes links to immigration-related reports by Human Rights Watch, including many focused on detention (not all of it relating to asylum seekers):
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/04/25/us-20-years-immigrant-abuses
Other reports on detention (not only of asylum seekers) include:
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/topics/immigration-detention
http://www.amnestyusa.org/research/reports/usa-jailed-without-justice
http://grassrootsleadership.org/reports/payoff-how-congress-ensures-private-prison-profit-immigrant-detention-quota
There are many others. Good luck!
Also, these reports from the UNHCR's "Beyond Detention" campaign may be of interest:
http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/protection/detention/57b579d84/unhcr-global-strategy-beyond-detention-baseline-report.html
http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/protection/detention/57b579e47/unhcr-global-strategy-beyond-detention-progress-report.html
Amnesty International (US) have material on this, such as
http://www.amnestyusa.org/research/reports/usa-in-hostile-terrain-human-rights-violations-in-immigration-enforcement-in-the-us-southwest
Start from here;
http://www.amnestyusa.org/search/node/Immigration%20detention%20US
http://www.amnestyusa.org/research/reports/usa-in-hostile-terrain-human-rights-violations-in-immigration-enforcement-in-the-us-southwest
http://www.amnestyusa.org/search/node/Immigration%20detention%20US
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