Medical Justice

Who we are

Medical Justice works to uphold the health and associated legal rights of people in immigration detention, and provides medical evidence so the devastating health harms of detention are understood and acted on.

Our volunteer clinicians visit people held in immigration detention, document scars of torture, assess deterioration in health, and challenge medical mistreatment.

We use medical evidence to secure lasting change through research, policy work, and strategic litigation. We work with parliamentarians and the media.

Our culture and values

• Common Humanity. We work for and with people in detention, treating them with respect and empathy.
• We recognise we cannot achieve change on our own so collaborate with the like-minded.
• We produce only evidence and facts to make our case as we believe those speak for themselves.
• We are outraged by the ongoing injustice to our fellow humans within immigration detention.
• Anti-racist: We regard many systems as inherently racist and work to challenge racism in all we do.
• We believe we do and can achieve change both for individuals and for our society.
• We will not cease until we achieve our vision

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

Medical Justice is committed to operating as an equal opportunities’ organisation.  We recognise the potential barriers to employment posed by race and ethnicity, disability, nationality, gender or gender identity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, and pregnancy or parenthood, and work to ensure that our recruitment policy takes them into consideration. Medical Justice will seek to make reasonable adjustments to the physical office environment to overcome barriers to employment caused by disability and encourages applications from candidates with disabilities.