107 Information extracted from the BRP DCC Minutes March 2024 provided to the Commission by the Department
on 4 July 2024.
108 Information extracted from the BRP DCC Minutes April 2024 provided to the Commission by the Department
on 4 July 2024.
109 UK Home Office, Detention Services Order 06/2016 Women in the immigration removal estate (April 2024), 13.
<https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6613aae6213873b991031b06/DSO+06+2016+Women+in+the+I
mmigration+Removal+Estate.pdf>.
110 Ibid, 13.
111 Ibid, 12.
112 Australian Human Rights Commission, Human rights standards for immigration detention (April 2013), Rule
14.11, 35. <https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/document/publication/HR_standards_immigration_
detention.pdf>.
113 United Nations General Assembly, United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the
Nelson Mandela Rules), A/RES/70/175 (8 January 2016), Rule 81(2).
114 Ibid, Rule 81(3).
115 United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment, Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment, A/HRC/31/57 (05 January 2016), para 19.
116 United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Views adopted by the
Committee under article 7 (3) of the Optional Protocol, concerning Communication No. 133/2018, CEDAW/
C/77/D/133/2018 (7 December 2020) para 7.5
117 United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, General recommendation
No. 32 on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women,
CEDAW/C/GC/32 (14 November 2014), para 34.
118 United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment, Prevention of torture and ill-treatment of women deprived of their liberty, CAT/OP/27/1 (18
January 2016), para 43.
119 United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment, Visit to Australia undertaken from 16 to 23 October 2022: recommendations and observations
addressed to the State party, CAT/OP/AUS/ROSP/1 (20 December 2023), para 94.
120 European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,
Women deprived of their liberty (18 August 2020), 2. <https://rm.coe.int/16806cd381>.
121 Ibid. 2.
122 Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman, Women in Prison: A thematic report about the conditions for female
prisoners in Norway (18 January 2017), 74. <https://www.sivilombudet.no/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/
SIVOM_temarapport_ENG_WEB_FINAL.pdf>.
123 Australian Human Rights Commission, Human rights standards for immigration detention (April 2013), Rule
20.2, 49. <https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/document/publication/HR_standards_immigration_
detention.pdf>.
124 United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment, Prevention of torture and ill-treatment of women deprived of their liberty, CAT/OP/27/1 (18
January 2016), para 31.
125 Ibid, para 35.
126 United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, its Causes and Consequences,
Pathways to, conditions and consequences of incarceration for women, A/68/340m (21 August 2013), para 78.
127 Office of the Inspectorate, The Lived Experience of Women in Prison (28 October 2021), 94. <https://
inspectorate.corrections.govt.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/44571/Inspectorate_Womens_Thematic_
Report_-_FINAL.pdf>.
128 New South Wales Inspector of Custodial Services, Women on Remand (February 2020), 123. <https://
inspectorcustodial.nsw.gov.au/documents/inspection-reports/women-on-remand.pdf>.
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