[RN]: Your film is a multi-layered portrait of what it means to be 11, and you interviewed children from around the world to create it. Why did you choose the age of 11? [Genevieve Bailey]: I chose 11 because I thought back to my favourite age in life – when you’re full of ideas and […]
By Bronwyn Naylor and Bernadette Saunders. This article is part of our July focus on the rights of children and youth. Read our Editorial for more on this theme. Corporal punishment involves intentionally applying force to someone else, with the aim of causing pain, to stop particular forms of behaviour or to show anger and disapproval. This would […]
By Tanja Kovac. This article is part of our July focus on the rights of children and youth. Read our Editorial for more on this theme. Tanja Kovac, the National Coordinator of the Human Rights are Aussie Rules Program (HRAR), writes about the development of a National Civics and Citizenship Curriculum that is currently underway for Australian schools. […]
By Michelle Sowey. This article is part of our July focus on the rights of children and youth. Read our Editorial for more on this theme. Some years ago, in a paper on human rights education, Jim Ife observed: The idea of human rights is far from non-problematic; it is highly contested, and so human rights education needs […]
By Chris Varney. This article is part of our July focus on the rights of children and youth. Read our Editorial for more on this theme. “I have never felt like I meant much,” said a 17-year-old in a rural homeless shelter. “The violence in my childhood has led to me having schizophrenia,” said an 18-year-old in […]
The age at which a child can be held responsible for criminal acts and dealt with within the criminal justice system varies enormously around the world. This is partly a reflection of the fact that systems for dealing with young offenders differ significantly. Some countries adopt a welfare-based approach where children are not punished for […]
By Holly Kendall. This article is part of our July focus on the rights of children and youth. Read our Editorial for more on this theme. You take a picture of yourself in your underwear and send it to your boyfriend or girlfriend. Your phone beeps. You pick it up. You’ve just been sent pictures of topless girls. […]
Government fails on child rights The Australian Human Rights Commission has found that Australia’s treatment of suspected people smugglers who said that they were children has breached international human rights law in a report released on Friday. The report An age of uncertainty reveal that between 2008 and 2011 Australian authorities gave little consideration to […]
UNICEF is committed to supporting Australia’s children and young people to learn about their rights as enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. As an agency they do all they can to equip children with the knowledge and skills to enable them to bring about positive change locally and beyond. Rights […]
By Emma Breheny. This article is part of our July focus on the rights of children and youth. Read our Editorial for more on this theme. Diversion is one of many sentencing options available in Victoria’s criminal justice system. It aims to direct people away from formal involvement with this system in recognition of the fact that this […]
By Marisa McCague, Meredith Fordyce and Kathryn Finemore. This article is part of our July focus on the rights of children and youth. Read our Editorial for more on this theme. Recently a mother tried to enroll her child at her local primary school. The Principal took it upon himself to ring the Principal of the local Special […]
21 July 2012 Cultural Diversity and child protection A review of Available research literature into the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) as well as refugee families in the Australian Child Protection System (CPS) has been published. The paper looks into what areas still require research in order to meet the needs of migrants […]