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Why? why does Australia do this? As a nation we are meant to be free, but then as soon as people arrive here to be in a safe environment they are thrown into detention centres onto remotes islands such as Manus. If these people are running from dangerous and unhealthy situations, then why are they being put into similar situations in another country. The three topics that are being covered include: how Australia doesn’t protect the human rights, what the rights towards refugees and asylum seekers are and how the rights towards refugees and asylum seekers are violated and finally what is currently being done to stop Australia from violating these rights?

Since the signing of the human rights convention in 1951, there have been reports that …show more content…
That is an important consideration in that our isolation from that jurisprudence means that we do not have what is a vital component of other constitutional and legal systems, … important ingredient in the emerging world order that is reducing the effective choices open to the nation state”

The concern for the protection of the rights is continuously growing, Australia is being urged to provide better protection to the rights from Human Rights monitors. This lack of consideration is a bit weird as Australia has provided a lot of protection towards the civil and political rights with the many institutions that assist in the protection of the civil and political rights. But as well as the Australian Governments’ failure to protect the human rights convention, they have also failed to respect and follow the rights and international standards towards the treatment and protection of refugees and asylum

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