Nauru

One major human rights issue that has been debated for the past decade in Australia, is the protection and treatment of refugees who land on Australian shores. “At the end of 2015, the number of refugees reached 65.3 million, revealing that 1 in every 113 people are displaced from their home.” This constant rise in refugee number highlights the importance for Australia’s government to move towards better solutions for the management of asylum seekers. This essay will consider the political…

ASYLUM SEEKERS REPORT SAMPLE RESPONSE LIVES HANG IN THE BALANCE Earlier this year the Australian Government had struck a deal with Malaysia to exchange 800 asylum seekers in exchange for 4000 already processed refugees. This was in an effort to break the people smugglers ‘business model’. Mr Bowen, Minister for Immigration, and his department was set to send the first group of asylum seekers to Malaysia in early August. The group of asylum seekers chosen to be sent included children and there…

A critical review on Amy Nethery & Rosa Holman (2016) Secrecy and human rights abuse in Australia’s offshore immigration detention centres, The International Journal of Human Rights, 20:7, 1018-1038 Amy Nethery and Rosa Holman argue the circumstances and causes of lacking human rights in Australian offshore detention centres (ODCs). They do this through discussing the inefficiency in governmental secrecy, deterrence, regulation and private company control in their journal article “Secrecy and…

"fair go". In the Universal declaration of human rights it states: "everyone has the right to seek asylum", but as they try to enter "the land of fair go" they either have their boat turned around by the Australian Navy or are deported to the the Nauru Regional Processing centre then to immigration detention facilities, where they remain until their refugee status is confirmed and have a location to be resettled to. In the Convention of the rights of the child it states "The arrest, detention or…

This population arrives to Australia without documentation and has to wait for the resettlement while are in a centers located in Christmas Island or Nauru Island. Thus, which can be a time-consuming process. Reference list: Australia’s Refugee and Humanitarian Programme, Department of Immigration & Border Protection, Canberra, 2015 http://www.border.gov.au/about/corporate/information/factsheets…

Australia, without valid visa’s or documentation to basically, be imprisoned. Through the years this has received much attention from the media and civilians, with various opinions on the topic. In 2001, the first offshore detention centre was opened in Nauru. There were just as many supporting this as there was objecting to this idea, but the Prime Minister of the time was in favour for this idea and proceeded with sending refugee’s and asylum seekers to the island. To begin with, I’d like to…

once again campaigned on the issue of asylum seekers, not just due to the influx of arrivals but also because both parties strived for tougher policies on border control (Bleiker 2013). In 2012, the Labor government reopened processing centers in Nauru and Papua New…

Throughout the world there are numerous types of political systems that are used to determine the leadership within the government of a nation. Not all nations are alike in the ways that the winner is ultimately decided. The reasons for holding elections are simple. In a society, people have differences of opinion. Within countries there are millions, if not hundreds of millions of people who hold opinions of their own. In order to fairly elect leaders and vote on decisions it is necessary to…

Introduction The recent developments of the political struggle that countries around Europe face that cause nations to be engulfed in a war like state has led many of their countries citizens to flee in order to seek asylum. The ongoing increase of asylum seekers that seek refuge in other countries has led to political disputes of how nation’s governments should handle the situations. This has led to the media to cover stories that focus on the stories of these asylum seekers and to see how they…

First Review 1. Malkki’s Critique of the Common Assumptions According to Malkki (1995), there exists a prevalent assumption that those forcibly displaced from their homeland are likely to lose their culture and identity because they must change their habits to fit in the asylum country. However, Malkki challenges this presupposition for the following two reasons. First, since most refugees initially seek asylum in neighboring countries, it is doubtful that the only getting across the nearest…