Australia: UN Told Australia Failing On The Rights Of Aboriginal And Refugee Children

Australia: UN Told Australia Failing On The Rights Of Aboriginal And Refugee Children   A delegation of Australian child's rights advocates and experts is in Geneva briefing the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child on Australia's failing to properly protect the rights of Aboriginal and asylum seeker children. They will point out that indigenous children have mortality rates three times higher than their non-Aboriginal peers and that around 400 children are currently being held...

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