Lex101 : The Human Rights of the vulnerable group are at risk - Human Rights Assignment

Internal code: MAS5787

Human Rights Assignment:

Case Study: Choose a group of people (e.g. Indigenous Australians, Refugees, LGBTI individuals) and explain the ways in which the human rights of the vulnerable group are at risk, being threatened, or not protected in Australia. The group may be large or small. Be specific when you nominate an identifiable group e.g. refugees, intersex persons, transgender persons. You will be expected to make cohesive and clear arguments about the human rights situation of the vulnerable group. Although broad arguments could be made about human rights protections in Australia e.g. how freedom of speech is curtailed, for the purposes of this essay it is important to focus on a specific group (or persons) to ensure you can adequately discuss their situation in 2000 words. In some instances it might be appropriate to illustrate how the human rights of the vulnerable group who are affected by exploring the experiences of individual members of the group. For example, there was much public debate about the treatment of Ranjini, a Sri Lankan asylum seeker of Tamil origin who was held in immigration detention with her children for more than three years from 2012 – 2015 and deemed a security threat. If you choose to focus primarily on an individual, rather than a group, that individual will be known as ‘the vulnerable person.’