Human Rights and Protection of Asylum Seekers in Australia and New Zealand

Human Rights

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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
To what extent does international law and Australian law guarantee human rights to asylum
seekers....................................................................................................................................3
Compare and contrast the protection offered to asylum seekers in Australia to protection
offered to asylum seekers in New Zealand.............................................................................4
Do you think that Australian law provides adequate human rights protection of asylum
seekers....................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Asylum seekers are people who have moved from their country and wanted to apply for
protection as refugees. Basically they are individuals who have fled from their home in search of
protection and safety in other countries as they cannot have protection in their home country
(Muytjens and Ball, 2016).
To what extent does international law and Australian law guarantee human rights to asylum
seekers
According to Dastyari (2018), Australia have obligations of protecting human rights of
all refugees and asylum seekers who have reached Australia regardless of where and how they
reach and whether they reach with visa or without visa. Refugees’ convention Australia has
made decision for ensuring that individuals who fulfill the definition of united nation of refugees
or asylum seekers cannot send back to that particular country where their freedom or life is
threatened. This comes under the very important principle known as non-refoulement. Australia
has also made obligations in which it is mentioned that not to send back people who are facing
real risk of violation of particular human rights under The Convention Against Torture,
International Convention On Civil and Political Rights and The Convention On The Rights Of
The Child and not to send individuals to third or another countries where they could face
violation risk for their human rights. These are the obligations that are also applicable to the
individuals who are determined as refugees.
In addition to this refugees and asylum seekers are in the territory of Australia, the gov-
ernment of Australia bears various obligations under different international treaties for ensuring
that human rights of asylum seekers and refugees are given protection and respect. The commis-
sion aims at providing factual clear information for improving awareness of community and
knowledge of the situation of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia in specific terms. The
commission highlights the human rights issues that are involved in the treatment of refugees and
asylum seekers. From this it could be identified that Australian law is continuously making laws
and policies for protecting human rights of asylum seekers so that countering discrimination and
social inclusion could be increased.
In the opinion of McDonald and O'Sullivan (2018), the commission has already
developed human rights resources for young people registered in the community language