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AUSTRALIA: Proposed traffic law would force Muslim women to remove veils or risk prison
19/Aug/2011 News
Summary: Muslim women would have to remove veils and show their faces to police on request or risk a prison sentence under...
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AUSTRALIA: High Court halts Malaysia asylum deal
8/Aug/2011 News
Summary: Australia's controversial measure to send 800 asylum seekers, including children, to Malaysia, a country which...
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AUSTRALIA: Call to change smack laws
3/Aug/2011 News
Summary: TASMANIA'S new Commissioner for Children wants the State Government to amend the law governing the physical...
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AUSTRALIA: New laws to ban electric shocks on children
3/Aug/2011 News
Summary: The treatment of electric shocks, which induce seizures by delivering an electrical current to the brain, is set...
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AUSTRALIA: Ombudsman slams govt agencies for failing children
3/Aug/2011 News
Summary: Over 700 children have had unsupervised contact with 376 registered sex offenders due to failures by government...
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AUSTRALIA: Wrist X-rays for age determination criticised
27/Jun/2011 News
Summary: Two of Australia's child commissioners have backed criticism of the Gillard government's use of wrist X-rays to...
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AUSTRALIA: Gov't softens child refugee policy
6/Jun/2011 News
Summary: The Australian government has decided to soften its plans to send ayslum-seeking children to Malaysia, and make...
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AUSTRALIA: Plans to send asylum-seeking children to Malaysia
3/Jun/2011 News
Summary: The measure has been criticised by various organisations and individuals as being negligent to the needs of...
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UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child (1959)
Fri, 20/11/1959 - 00:00 Instrument
Proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 1386(XIV) of 20 November 1959...
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Annual Report 2011
13/May/2011 Publication
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