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Youth And Law Youth And Law

My experiences with the My experiences with the law and justice pre and law and justice pre and after arrival in Australiaafter arrival in Australia

Adila KarimiAdila Karimi

Youth Law in Youth Law in Afghanistan Afghanistan

Afghanistan has been always subject Afghanistan has been always subject to warto war

There is no particular law for youth There is no particular law for youth

Injustice between the high society Injustice between the high society (wealthy) and working society (poor)(wealthy) and working society (poor)

Lack of education has minimized Lack of education has minimized understanding of youth problems and understanding of youth problems and their needstheir needs

Lack of opportunity to get educationLack of opportunity to get education

It’s time for them be in It’s time for them be in school!school!

Decades of war has caused Afghan youth to Decades of war has caused Afghan youth to suffer from many difficulties like:suffer from many difficulties like:

Being responsible of having families Being responsible of having families expenses on their shouldersexpenses on their shoulders

Lack of skills and education cause youth to Lack of skills and education cause youth to do illegal things ( drugs, crime, theft…) that do illegal things ( drugs, crime, theft…) that cause them to go behind barscause them to go behind bars

Being subject to sexual assaultsBeing subject to sexual assaults Sex discrimination in the society due to Sex discrimination in the society due to

ignorance, boys are preferred more then girlsignorance, boys are preferred more then girls

Girls are forced to Girls are forced to obey laws made by obey laws made by the family for them the family for them

Early and forced Early and forced marriages are still marriages are still one of the common one of the common things that things that government is government is aware of but does aware of but does nothing about itnothing about it

Being a girl is hard to Being a girl is hard to defend from herself defend from herself

Young girls tolerate Young girls tolerate many physical and many physical and mental punishments mental punishments to save their families to save their families status and name in status and name in the societythe society

There is no law to There is no law to protect her from protect her from happening this again!happening this again!

Mostly girls are Mostly girls are tried to be killed or tried to be killed or burned if they ever burned if they ever made the mistake made the mistake to love and live to love and live their lives as they their lives as they wishwish

Her nose is cut and Her nose is cut and the mistake is, as a the mistake is, as a young women she young women she has asked for few has asked for few minutes of freedom minutes of freedom to go out with her to go out with her same age friendssame age friends

Law and youth in Law and youth in AustraliaAustralia

As a refugee youth after arrival in Australia As a refugee youth after arrival in Australia in the beginning things seem to be hardin the beginning things seem to be hard

Very complicated how to obey the lawVery complicated how to obey the law The cultural and environmental differencesThe cultural and environmental differences The education system The education system But after understanding the rules and But after understanding the rules and

regulations things get easier and betterregulations things get easier and better

As results:As results:

As a result I can say that today’s As a result I can say that today’s youth is tomorrow's future. How youth is tomorrow's future. How society treats them today they will society treats them today they will treat society same tomorrow to treat society same tomorrow to avoid misunderstanding listening avoid misunderstanding listening can bring a big differencecan bring a big difference

Acting is better than saying…Acting is better than saying…

Thank Thank you!you!