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<title>Our Mission | Asylum Rights</title>
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<p id="Title" ><a href="index.html">Asylum Rights</a></p>
<a href="index.html"><div class="tabs"><p>Our Mission</p></div></a>
<a href="FactsVSMyths.html"><div class="tabs"><p>Facts V/S Myths</p></div></a>
<a href="action.html"><div class="tabs"><p>Take Action</p></div></a>
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<h1>Who are asylum seekers?</h1>
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An asylum seeker is a person who has fled their own country and
applied for refugee status in another. Asylum seekers are granted
refugee status and allowed to live in the country if they are unable or
unwilling to return to their home country due to a well-rounded fear
of being prosecuted because of their:
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<li>Race</li>
<li>Religion</li>
<li>Nationality</li>
<li>Membership of a particular social group</li>
<li>Political opinion</li>
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Seeking asylum is a human right, and Australia has pledged to give
asylum seekers the same human rights given to its people. Australia
simply doesn’t do this.
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<h1>How Australia Violates Human Rights:</h1>
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The following paragraphs about the 1951 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Refugees are from the website of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
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Liberty is a fundamental human right, like asylum. As a general rule, detention of asylum-
seekers is not acceptable. It is particularly undesirable when those detained include the very
vulnerable — children, single women, and people with special medical or psychological
needs, such as torture victims. They are not criminals; they have already suffered great
hardship and jailing them is wrong.
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The 1951 Convention specifically bars countries from punishing people who have arrived
directly from a country of persecution (or from another country where protection could not be
assured), provided that they present themselves speedily to the authorities and show good
cause for their illegal entry. Monitoring (through reporting obligations or guarantor
requirements) is often a perfectly viable alternative to imprisoning asylum-seekers.
Detention is only acceptable if it is brief, absolutely necessary, and instituted after other
options have been implemented. Acceptable purposes include to verify identity; to determine
the elements on which the claim for asylum is based; the protection of public order; or, if
necessary, in cases where refugees have destroyed documents or used fraudulent ones.
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Detained asylum-seekers should always be informed of their rights – including the right to
challenge their imprisonment. All asylum-seekers must maintain the possibility of contacting
the local UNHCR office, other agencies, and a lawyer.
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<h1>The Australian government policy violates the above convention in the following ways:</h1>
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<li>It is applied without discrimination to all unauthorised refugees including, children, single women and torture victims.</li>
<li>It is neither brief or necessary. Detention of refugees can last for weeks months or even years while their application makes
its way through the bureaucracy. Australia is the only country
in the developed world to imprison refugees. In other
countries, they are generally released into the community
while their application is being processed.</li>
<li>Refugees in detention centres are not informed of their
rights to the UNHCR, refugee support groups or legal
representatives. In fact, the Government has gone to
extraordinary lengths to isolate them from such groups.</li>
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