Topic: Indigenous People

No.155 - 22 February 2012 Enabling or Disabling: Imprisoning People with Mental and Cognitive Disability

Articles / Asylum Seekers / Children & Youth / Disability / Health / Indigenous People / Prisoners' Rights / Women / (1 Comment)

This article is part of our February theme, which focuses on one of the great silences in the human rights conversation in Australia: Prisoners’ Rights. Read ... Read More

No.147 Indigenous Juvenile Detention: Australia’s Neglected Crisis

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This article is part of our February theme, which focuses on one of the great silences in the human rights conversation in Australia: Prisoners’ Rights. ... Read More

No.146 This Week’s Human Rights News

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9 February 2012 Australian Lawyer’s Alliance warns of risk of increase in Indigenous incarceration rates The Australian Lawyers alliance has warned that high incarceration rates ... Read More

No.145 Art & Prisons in Queensland

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This article is part of our February theme, which focuses on one of the great silences in the human rights conversation in Australia: Prisoners’ Rights. ... Read More

No.144 Overcrowding in Western Australia’s Prisons

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This article is part of our February theme, which focuses on one of the great silences in the human rights conversation in Australia: Prisoners’ Rights. ... Read More

No.141 This Week’s Human Rights News

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2 February 2012 Alarming increase in detention rates among young Indigenous people Yesterday, Greens Senator Penny Wright drew attention to the alarming increase in the ... Read More

No.139 This Week’s Human Rights News

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26 January 2012 Tent Embassy 40th Anniversary Demonstrations Australia Day this year marked the 40th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. Tent embassy was founded ... Read More

No.138 This Week’s Human Rights News

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19 January 2012 Expert Panel hands over report for the recognition of Indigenous Australians in the constitution to federal government The Expert Panel consisting of ... Read More

No.132 This Week’s Human Rights News

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24 December 2011 Robert Manne encourages self-scrutiny on asylum seeker policy The recent sinking of a fishing boat that was carrying asylum seekers to Australia ... Read More

No.131 Family Violence and Homelessness in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities

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This month’s theme – homelessness – is one that affects all communities. One of the most common causes of homelessness in Australia is domestic and family ... Read More

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