Following the likely return of the Gunner Labor party to office in the Northern Territory, the government must now make good on its promise to raise the age of criminal responsibility. In 2017, the Gunner government committed to recommendations from the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory including […]
At its annual Council of Attorneys-General (CAG) meeting last week, Australian lawmakers extended a review into raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to at least 14. Now, Amnesty International Australia is calling on the nation’s police to effect a moratorium on arresting and detaining children younger than 14 until the recommendations of […]
Responding to the Communique from the Council of Attorneys-General today in Adelaide which progressed the review of raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility of 14, Amnesty International Australia Indigenous Rights Manager Tammy Solonec said: “We know there is the will to raise the age in Australia, but it’s disappointing that the Communique hasn’t noted […]
In the ACT & across Australia, a child as young as 10 years old can be charged, sentenced and locked up. Every year, 600 children – most of them Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children – are locked away in youth jails. On International Human Rights Day, join us at our #raisetheage forum as we […]
Responding to new data from the Northern Territory government showing a decline in the number of children in Northern Territory youth prisons, Amnesty International Australia Indigenous Rights Manager Tammy Solonec said: “The trend towards fewer kids being locked up in the Territory is welcome, but there are still 363 children in prison, which is 363 […]
Australia has been urged by a committee of international experts to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 years of age.
Aboriginal and human rights organisations today welcomed the Australian Medical Association’s call for all states and territories to raise the age when children can be held criminally responsible to at least 14 years. All Australian states and territories currently have laws that allow children as young as ten years to be charged, brought before the […]
During 2018 a class of animation students from RMIT University in Melbourne put their minds together to visually communicate why Australia must change its laws so that children younger than 14 are no longer locked up. Top submissions 1. Rowena Lloyd, Akmal Azman, Fanny Yifan Shi and Will Thomasz: © Private 2. Jasmine Elrick: © […]
A broad cross-section of medical, children’s welfare, criminology, legal, Indigenous and human rights experts from around Australia have united with one voice, calling on Queensland’s Minister for Child Safety, Youth and Women Di Farmer to raise the minimum age that Queensland locks up children, from 10 to 14. Members of all Queensland political parties were […]
The Amnesty Eastern Suburbs group is looking to sign up activists in the pursuit of human rights. In addition, the focus of the stall will be to gain support for the Amnesty International Australia campaign for the various Australian Governments to work with Indigenous communities for solutions to reduce the over-representation of Indigenous youth in […]