World Children’s Day, 20 November: Australia and the Rights of the Child – Useful Links

Links relating to the UN, the Convention and reporting process

Convention on the Rights of the Child

UN General Comment 24: children’s rights in the child justice system

Concluding observations on Australia’s combined 5th and 6th periodic reports

Child Rights Taskforce Parallel Report

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Victorian Commission for Children and Young People Links

Website

Report on children's experience of the out-of-home care system

In Our Own Words report

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services Links

Website

Twitter: @NATSILS_ #raisetheage

Raise the Age campaign

Other Links

ACT to commit to raising criminal age of responsibility

Australia’s human rights record will be reviewed next year in process called Universal Periodic Review. NGOs have submitted a report

Family Matters Report 2020

KPMG review found JR in Bourke: Youth development: 31% increase in year 12 student retention rates and a 38% reduction in charges across the top five juvenile offence categories

In My Blood It Runs film

Who is minding the children? The invisibility of incarceration by Grace O’Brien