Human Rights

Running head: REFUGEES AS VULNERABLE GROUP
REFUGEES AS VULNERABLE GROUP
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REFUGEES AS VULNERABLE GROUP1
Each individual has pride and value. Human rights are a place of values concerned
with equal opportunity and fairness. They identify the liberty to make a decision about their
lives and expand the capability as a human being. An individual is called as vulnerable if they
cannot protect themselves due to illness or age or race or any mistreatment and any other
scenario. The exploitation of people leads to a vulnerable environment. Despite multiple
approaches, vulnerability still is a major concerning issue. This essay aims to understand the
reason for refugees to be under a vulnerable group. This essay will discuss refugees as they
are more prone to poverty, low access to medical care, physical threat and mental state.
Refugees are considered a vulnerable group. The first factor for vulnerability is
poverty; many refugees are poor and do not get immediate access to financial help. Refugees
include women and children who are the most vulnerable among the refugees. Children face
multiple challenges such as education, development of language, the psychological effect of
the trauma they had to face while fleeing from their nation country (Neikirk 2017). Lack of
economic help or any resources result in sleep on the road or any public places. When there is
any natural disaster like floods or earthquakes, these people will be facing the consequences
and that leads to vulnerability (MacDonald 2017). Refugees often face discrimination in
renting house efficiently and compulsorily forced them to move remote or isolated suburbs
by scarcer amenities. Children who are without a guardian or warden are facing the greatest
threat. Minister of immigration and citizenship are going to send solitary children to the third
countries, any further process of claiming refugee will continue in the third world countries.
Although transferring solitary children are under the law of Australia; however, it seems to
violate the responsibility of Australia's international human rights. The ministries act as a
guardian to those solitary children and taken the responsibility to guide the processing of
claim as well as decide their best interests. On the other hand, after transferring children in
the third country, the role of guardianship is still uncertain (Nardone and Correa-Velez 2016).

REFUGEES AS VULNERABLE GROUP2
Many refugees, including men, women along with children in Australia, were forced
to transfer into a very remote Pacific island nation of Nauru. Around 1200 people were
included and they faced severe consequences such as abuse neglect and inhuman treatment.
They do not get quality health care, delay in a medical facility, and all these lead to a serious
issue in mental health (Allotey and Reidpath 2018). Nauru is uncultivated land as there were
40 years of phosphate mining, and the education and health facility is enormously inadequate
(Fleay and Hoffman 2014). Nauruan law necessitates all non-citizen to have a visa, as
refugees or asylum seekers do not have a visa. That is the reason that the Australian
government applies for the visa on behalf of these refugees deprived of their concerns.
According to the visa, they must live in the Regional processing center (RPC). There are very
inadequate facilities and very fewer privacy within the detention site. There is no ceiling fan,
besides only eight toilets as well as two urinals, were made available for 411 men (Dastyari
2015). They keep waiting for their refugee claim, waiting for the process of medication, or
any security checks. However, if they do not possess any emergent or life-threatening from
their host country or nation, they will not be provided as a refugee and can remove from
Australia (Neumann 2016). Additionally, due to excessive concerns in health as well as
protection, around 400 refugees and shelter seekers endure community detention in Australia.
The government has not granted these refugees and asylum seekers the permit to work as
they were receiving all the acute medical needs. Moreover, to support their statement, if these
refugees work for financial needs is unfair and unreasonable as they are getting the facility of
medical needs. Refugees transferring to Nauru and Papua New Guinea are not suitable as
medical experts have also confirmed the need for medical along with the psychological
services. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has also testified the
impracticality of local integration on even a provisional basis for the massive widespread of