ChildRightsAustralia

Children’s rights in Australia.
Information, education, networking, campaigning.
By ISS Australia, the Austn member of Defence for Children International. #CRC

[ChildRightsAustralia @ChildRightsAust]

How do we ensure child rights?
- consider child's best interests
- respect child's views
- enable child's maximum devt
- never discriminate

[Hugh de Kretser @HughdeKretser]

This girl is just 1 of 119 kids that the Turnbull Government continues to detain after 5 long years in awful conditions on a remote island the size of Melbourne airport. #KidsOffNauru

[endchilddetention @childdetention]

Only a week to go! If you are in Melbourne, come to our public panel on keeping kids out of #detention in Australia

Register now! https://t.co/RMi7Zin3af

@AusLawyersHR @catholicmission @JRS_Aus @CAPSA_WeCan @OzRefugeeCounc @ACOSS @MYANAustralia @UnitingJustice @ChildRightsAust

[Hugh de Kretser @HughdeKretser]

10 year old kids should be in primary school not locked up in youth jails. Queensland Government should #RaiseTheAge of criminal responsibility. #QLDPOL

[ChildRightsAustralia @ChildRightsAust]

Children's author @matchtrick talks with @ClareER about his writing methods & his 'funny & zany' novel for kids aged 9+ #TheOrchardUnderground:
https://t.co/UehrQBIaIp @HardieGrant

[ChildRightsAustralia @ChildRightsAust]

Watch @BehindTheNews' 3-min. story & (get kids to) do the survey to help @MeganM4Kids report back to the UN on children's rights in Australia:
https://t.co/67WDJoH99D #UNCRC

[ChildRightsAustralia @ChildRightsAust]

What is happening on Nauru should shock the conscience of every Australian:
https://t.co/TMg0vwkEQ6 #Nauru #CRC

[ChildRightsAustralia @ChildRightsAust]

Paul Kelly and Kate Miller-Heidke give voice to the Nauru files:
https://t.co/sCylpIuHfq (1-min. video)

[ChildRightsAustralia @ChildRightsAust]

Guards at Victoria's youth jails receive just 30 minutes of Indigenous cultural training
https://t.co/S5g2oE0Sqk

[ChildRightsAustralia @ChildRightsAust]

Breastfeeding: it's bad for business!
https://t.co/mJU03T4QP3

[ChildRightsAustralia @ChildRightsAust]

Mums & their children who have #DownSyndrome sign in #Makaton for World Down Syndrome Day earlier this year:
https://t.co/DV8tSop6Pw (4.5 min.)

[Human Rights Law Centre @humanrightsHRLC]

“This year alone, around 600 children under the age of 14 will be taken from their families and communities and locked up. Most of these children are Indigenous – like me.” #RaiseTheAge Read @keenan_mundine's story here: https://t.co/s5GODnSpf9

[Amnesty International Australia 🕯 @amnestyOz]

Indigenous advocate Keenan Mundine told the UN overnight: "This year alone, around 600 children under the age of 14 were taken from their families and imprisoned. This injustice must end." https://t.co/6seYQiIxdr #RaiseTheAge

[NATSILS @NATSILS_]

Children as young as 10 are locked up in Australian prisons. In every state and territory.

This @TheEconomist graphic shows how behind the rest of the world we are.

Time for Australian Governments to #RaiseTheAge to 14 & to invest in prevention & support for kids, not prisons.

[Olivia Ball @DrOliviaBall]

When many of us feel at a loss for words, this is what police should say after an act of gendered violence:
https://t.co/t4WmZVuVvC #EurydiceDixon

[Olivia Ball @DrOliviaBall]

See the wonderful film #BorderPolitics. @JulianBurnside looking at various ways ppl & govts around the world are responding to #refugees, & historical context. V moving. The humanity of ordinary ppl recognising the humanity of others. Trust, solidarity, compassion are possible.

[ChildRightsAustralia @ChildRightsAust]

The government announces the creation of a national office for child safety, a key recommendation from the royal commission:
https://t.co/qDetdQ84z1

[ChildRightsAustralia @ChildRightsAust]

Total denial of social contact is a breach of the UN Convention Against Torture, at any age:
https://t.co/jBrl9ZxhDK The #NT is banning #solitaryconfinement & all states & territories should follow suit. #CAT

[ChildRightsAustralia @ChildRightsAust]

Positive group identity & belonging is essential to mental & physical health & can benefit students academically too:
https://t.co/1eWV4LCHbF

[ChildRightsAustralia @ChildRightsAust]

Australian kids feel less like they belong, esp. girls, Indigenous kids, rural, poor & Australian born kids:
https://t.co/ocZ7jmspWY

[Child Rights International Network - CRIN @CRINwire]

New CRIN case study: In the 1990s Australian care leavers demanded acknowledgement of historical abuse and neglect, leading to social and political change across the country. https://t.co/IKkga1CY1k #ChildRights #CareLeavers