No Child’s Play: Children in Immigration Detention.
Description of the Issue
As of The 31st of August 2015 there are currently 104 children being held in Immigration Residential housing, Immigration transit accommodation and alternative places of detention? (Department of Immigration and Border Protection, 2015). The large majority of children in these detentions centres have come to Australia seeking asylum from their homeland. Yet, we put them into a facility that can cause them great harm. It has been found in the Moss Inquiry that the placement of children in detention centres has placed them in danger through the high levels of abuse. The inquiry found “evidence of rape, sexual assault of minors and guards trading marijuana for sexual …show more content…
This issues is linked to the common good as this is considered a violation of the UN convention the Rights of the Child as seen by the Human Rights Commission, a way to protect the people of Australia by the Australian Government, and a danger to the health and well being of the children being held by advocacy groups.
This issue affects the Dignity of the human person, global solidarity and participation within the principles of human flourishing.
Dignity of the human person “is that humans were created in the image and likeness of God. Regardless of any factors or reasons we can think of, individuals have an inherent and immeasurable worth and dignity; each human life is considered sacred.” (Catholic Social Teaching, 2015). In relation to children in detention centres the Australian government is not adhering to this principle, as they are not providing the children with the dignity that all Australians are due to the way in which they have arrived in the country. They are denying children their rights. They are being exposed to abuse, being denied education and are not provided with the methods to be able to live as children in Australia are able. Detention centers in Australia and offshore cause harm to children, which does not allow them to keep the dignity, they demand as humans. Both the Human Rights Commission and advocacy groups …show more content…
These groups show those in detention that they are equal to the Australian Public. The children that are being held are in facilities where they are unable to behave like others, to be able to be equal to other people of the country they are seeking asylum in. The Australian Government is denying the children solidarity by holding them indefinitely in these facilities where they are not able to be a feel as though they are the same as other
Description of the Issue
As of The 31st of August 2015 there are currently 104 children being held in Immigration Residential housing, Immigration transit accommodation and alternative places of detention? (Department of Immigration and Border Protection, 2015). The large majority of children in these detentions centres have come to Australia seeking asylum from their homeland. Yet, we put them into a facility that can cause them great harm. It has been found in the Moss Inquiry that the placement of children in detention centres has placed them in danger through the high levels of abuse. The inquiry found “evidence of rape, sexual assault of minors and guards trading marijuana for sexual …show more content…
This issues is linked to the common good as this is considered a violation of the UN convention the Rights of the Child as seen by the Human Rights Commission, a way to protect the people of Australia by the Australian Government, and a danger to the health and well being of the children being held by advocacy groups.
This issue affects the Dignity of the human person, global solidarity and participation within the principles of human flourishing.
Dignity of the human person “is that humans were created in the image and likeness of God. Regardless of any factors or reasons we can think of, individuals have an inherent and immeasurable worth and dignity; each human life is considered sacred.” (Catholic Social Teaching, 2015). In relation to children in detention centres the Australian government is not adhering to this principle, as they are not providing the children with the dignity that all Australians are due to the way in which they have arrived in the country. They are denying children their rights. They are being exposed to abuse, being denied education and are not provided with the methods to be able to live as children in Australia are able. Detention centers in Australia and offshore cause harm to children, which does not allow them to keep the dignity, they demand as humans. Both the Human Rights Commission and advocacy groups …show more content…
These groups show those in detention that they are equal to the Australian Public. The children that are being held are in facilities where they are unable to behave like others, to be able to be equal to other people of the country they are seeking asylum in. The Australian Government is denying the children solidarity by holding them indefinitely in these facilities where they are not able to be a feel as though they are the same as other