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//"Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution."// - Article 14 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

[|Video about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights]


 * Human Rights** are an important part of our lives. In fact, they are so much a part of every day living that we can often take them for granted. Consider how often you drink clean water; eat food; go to school; say or write what you think; get treated by a doctor; practice a religion (or not); or expect to be treated fairly by others.

People become refugees or asylum seekers when they are forced to leave their countries because their human rights are being threatened or violated. Nobody chooses to become a refugee. Australian Human Rights Commission link [|Background info on refugees and asylum seekers‏] Did you know that there are asylum seekers and refugees in almost every country of the world?

How would you feel if you were the saunbathers? Houw might you feel if you were the man crawling?
 * Fresh off a makeshift boat this man crawls past sunbathers relaxing in the tropical paradise of the Spanish Canary Islands towards a new life in the first world.**

[|Najeeba's Story]

Just like Nageeb many refugees travel to Australia on leaky boats. Many of them are children.


 * Who are "boat-people"?**

Are you aware that there **children are held in detention camps** in Australia? = SBS News Report Mar 21, 2012 = Message from an Australian child to other children in detention

What message might you have for children in detention? If you would like to post a messages of support you can do it via this link: [|show your support link]

What do you think might it be like to grow up in Afghanistan? Growing up in Afghanistan can be pretty tough. Children make up half of the population and a quarter of them die before the age of five.

What does the word **'Afghanistan'** mean to you? What do you associate this word with?

Afghanistan - The Toughest Battle - Kite Running [|Afghan Dance] [|Little Afghan Girl Sings]

Author Libby Gleeson speaks about what inspired her to write this book

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