HR PART 2

Question 1

• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Answer 1

“Article 9(1): Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention. No one shall be deprived of his liberty except on such grounds and in accordance with such procedure as are established by law.”

Question 2

• 37(b) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Answer 2

• “ Asylum seekers’ mental health linked to length of detention”(July 2, 2014, smho “128 children in immigration detention were reported to have harmed themselves between last January and March this year”
o “at least 10 mothers locked up at Christmas Island had attempted to commit suicide after being told they would be sent to Nauru or Manus Island, in a bid to ensure that their children would be admitted to Australia”

Question 3

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Article 14

Answer 3

“Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations