Aboriginal leaders are calling on the United Nations to take urgent action to address Australia’s discriminatory and punitive youth justice policies, due to serious violations of the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
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Bail saves lives, but the Allan Government has rammed through dangerous and discriminatory bail laws which will deeply harm Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and breach human rights.
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People could be stopped and searched at any time and for no reason for up to six months in designated areas of Victoria under expanded police search powers passed by the Allan Government today, says the Human Rights Law Centre.
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The Allan Government has proposed reviving the worst of dangerous and discriminatory bail laws which will harm Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and generations of Victorian children.
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Change the Record and the Human Rights Law Centre strongly condemn the Crisafulli Government for ramming through laws to lock up even more children in Queensland’s overcrowded and unsafe police watch houses and youth prisons. The laws will disproportionately imprison Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, and children with disabilities
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Change the Record and the Human Rights Law Centre have denounced the Crisafulli Government’s gob-smacking laws that will mean ten-year-old children will face adult sentences and grow up in prison cells. The shameful changes will further exacerbate the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in watch houses and prisons.
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The Human Rights Law Centre has condemned harsh new laws rushed through by the NT Government that will jail 10 year old children again.
The laws, passed in the first parliamentary sitting week of the new government, will take the Northern Territory backwards and threaten a dangerous precedent for children’s rights and safety nationwide.
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The Human Rights Law Centre says the Allan Government has missed an opportunity to get youth justice reform right, after the Victorian Parliament passed the Youth Justice Bill.
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The Human Rights Law Centre has denounced Premier Allan for breaking a promise to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14 by 2027 in Victoria.
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The Human Rights Law Centre is calling on all parties in the 2024 NT election to address the NT’s imprisonment crisis and invest in community-led, self-determined solutions which build a better future for everyone.
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The Victorian Parliament has an historic opportunity to set up a future where every child grows up in school, has a safe home to live in and is supported to learn from their mistakes with their family and communities.
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The Human Rights Law Centre has called on the Allan Government to be brave in transforming Victoria’s youth justice system, with the Youth Justice Bill 2024 introduced into the Victorian Parliament.
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The family of Warlpiri and Luritja teenager Kumanjayi Walker are calling for truth, accountability and justice, after the coronial inquest into the police shooting death of Kumanjayi concluded its evidence yesterday.
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Formerly incarcerated women, trans and gender diverse people alongside Flat Out and the Human Rights Law Centre are calling for governments across the country to permanently prohibit the practice of strip searching people in Australian prisons.
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The Human Rights Law Centre has slammed the Miles Government for putting children’s lives in danger after plans were announced to remove detention as a last resort' from Queensland’s youth justice laws.
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The Human Rights Law Centre and the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency have slammed the decision made by the NT Chief Minister Eva Lawler today to extend the curfew in Mparntwe/Alice Springs.
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Today, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan responded to the Yoorrook for Justice report. Prepared by the first formal truth-telling process into injustices experienced by First Peoples in Victoria, the Yoorrook for Justice report made 46 recommendations for crucial change of the state’s legal system.
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The Allan Government’s gutless backflip on changes to youth bail laws will harm generations of Victorian children, and keep children needlessly locked up away behind bars in pre-trial detention.
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