We welcome the Children’s Commissioner’s report tabled today, urging the Australian Government to protect children in detention by ratifying the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture. In response to the report, Roxanne Moore, Indigenous Rights Campaigner at Amnesty International Australia, said: “Let’s see Australia’s leaders ratify OPCAT, and then commit to a national plan for protecting children …
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New #JustJustice book should be top of PM Turnbull’s reading list
The Federal Government must make good on its promise to listen to, and work with, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including engaging with the solutions put forward in the forthcoming #JustJustice essay collection. The book includes more than 90 articles on solutions to protect the rights of Australia’s First Peoples. These include pieces by …
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