No Child’s Play: Children in Immigration Detention Asylum seekers become an increasingly controversial topic not just in Australia‚ but also around the world. Asylum seekers are people who flee their homeland in order to find safety from dangerous circumstances that are out of their control (Australian Human Rights Commission‚ 2014). On arrival in or near Australian land‚ these peace seekers are detained until their claims can be legally processed and they are either granted an Australian visa or
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which have currently been denied their basic human rights. The government’s policy of creating Immigration Detention Facilities as a way of detaining unauthorised asylum seekers may be a solution the problem of controlling Australia’s borders‚ however‚ violates the human rights of this group in Australia. One strategy that addresses this issue is the implementation of community detention‚ which has many positive and negative aspects. Many people seek refuge in Australia to escape the terrors of
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1. Constitution of the Philippines(1973) 2. 1973 Constitution of the Philippines The Constitution of the Philippines ( Saligang Batas ng Pilipinas in Filipino) is the supreme law of the Philippines. The 1973 Constitution ‚ composed of a preamble and 17 articles‚ provides for the shift from presidential to parliamentary system of government. The Constitution vests the legislative power in the National Assembly. A Prime Minister is elected from among the members of the National Assembly and serves
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sophisticated and developed legal communities. However‚ the country ’s justice system was adversely affected by the political meltdown‚ with lawyers and judges fleeing the country by the hundreds. The country ’s prisons swelled and the pre-trial detention population soared. During this period of turmoil‚ torture became widely accepted as a legitimate tool for police investigation and judicial sanctions. A total system collapse resulted in a humanitarian catastrophe on a massive scale. Zimbabwe is
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limits of a persons detention‚ and the processes that must be undertaken if the custody officer wishes to extend the time that a person is kept in custody. I will be exploring the duties of the custody officer and what the job role entails on a day to day basis. Whatever is done by the custody officer is to be undertaken in a certain manor and in accordance with the PACE act‚ some of the processes being more time consuming than others. I will also look at limits of detention and the process of review
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decision was rendered‚ it was established by the Supreme Court that pre-adjudication detention of a juvenile was in fact constitutional and did not go against their due process rights granted in the Bill of Rights. Prior to this decision‚ juvenile detention centers were very temporary in nature. The average length of stay in the nation was about 15 days and it typically covered the
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The War against Terror as War against the Constitution Jackson A. Niday‚ II Abstract: This essay examines rhetorical dynamics in the 2004 US Supreme Court case Hamdi v. Rumsfeld. News reports suggested the court split 8-1 or 6-3. However‚ case texts show substantive disagreements created a 4-2-2-1 split in the court. Moreover‚ while the justices on the bench split into four camps rather than two‚ those camps were not defined along ideological lines. This essay argues that pragmatism‚ the legal
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Australian courts have found in previous cases that the detention of unlawful citizens is considered as an administrative detention that is effected by the Executive government.4 Such detention is valid for the purpose of processing and removal from Australia of unlawful non-citizens‚ and immigration detention is not repugnant to the Commonwealth Constitution.5 It was argued in the case of Al-Kateb v Godwin that stateless unlawful
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the responsibilities to refugees as per United Nations Council Resolutions (1967). The US and UK have implemented deterrence policies that classify these asylum seekers as deviant outsiders (Frey& Zhao‚ 2011). The employment of widespread use of detention‚ the passing of legislation that deny this fundamental human right to protection‚ as well as the negative depiction of asylum seekers in the press all combine to effectively criminalize protection seekers (Hassan‚ 2000). This paper seeks to illustrate
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or afterward.) Today I observed 2 emergency hearings and a detention hearing. The first hearing was a juvenile sent to detention for trying to commit suicide by hanging himself at his foster home‚ the foster mom had to cut him down‚ he was sent to FMC‚ assessed and then released‚ he was sent to detention for his own protection. CPS is currently looking for another placement. -Update- the juvenile attempted suicide in detention‚ he has been put on suicide watch. The second hearing was
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