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AUSTRALIA: Asylum-seekers to be transfered to Pacific islands for offshore processing
15/Aug/2012 News
Summary: Activists warn that sending asylum seekers to the islands placed them at risk of human rights abuses and will...
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AUSTRALIA: Child rights are flouted for 'public opinion'
15/Aug/2012 News
Summary: Civil society groups say the federal government should pay compensation to children who had been illegally...
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AUSTRALIA: Children's Rights in the UN Special Procedures' Reports
13/Aug/2012 Publication
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of the UN Special Procedures. This does...
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AUSTRALIA: Aboriginal kids at higher risk of jail
5/Jul/2012 News
Summary: A report has found that indigenous girls and boys are 23 times more likely to be imprisoned than their non...
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AUSTRALIA: Vietnamese children detained for more than 400 days
28/Jun/2012 News
Summary: An asylum seeker support group says Australia's Government is unfairly holding a group of Vietnamese children in...
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AUSTRALIA: National Laws
27/Jun/2012 Publication
Summary: General overview of Australia's national legal provisions on children's rights, including guidance on how to...
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AUSTRALIA: Children's Ombudsperson
27/Jun/2012 Publication
Summary: Information about institutions in Australia that monitor children's rights....
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AUSTRALIA: Persistent violations of children's rights
26/Jun/2012 Publication
Summary: The violations highlighted are those issues raised with the State by more than one international mechanism. This...
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AUSTRALIA: State shuts down democratic school
21/Jun/2012 Publication
Summary: This is a Briefing document that has been prepared to outline what happened to a School that parents, their...
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