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Human Rights: Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Human rights – we all take it for granted. We can go around expressing our personal feelings and believe in anything we want. For others it isn’t as easy. Refugees and Asylum Seekers are people who have left their home country to seek a better life in another. But, when they come over to this country, their lives don’t get much better. These people have a silent voice in society. They can end up feeling like they are practically invisible. They aren’t listened to, and they’re not always accepted in the community.

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SMILE!!! You Live Here and Now

Hey!! Just thinking about my English topic - writing an article on human rights. In this country we can go around, smiling, frowning, and thinking and expressing our own, individual thoughts. Whereas in other countries, or even in this country about 100 years back we couldn't without being put in jail, punished, or even killed (at the extremes) for expressing our beliefs, believing that coloured people should be treated equally, expressing your own thoughts and sharing your dreams and aspirations with others, etc, etc.

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