NSW has launched a public awareness campaign about coercive control, in the lead-up to the new NSW coercive control laws coming into effect on 1 July 2024.

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#CoerciveControl #ItsNotLove

Media Release: Miles Government is endangering children by removing detention as a last resort from QLD's youth justice laws. Out of all jurisdictions in Australia, QLD locks up the most children in police and prison cells. Monique Hurley
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Witnesses include:
🔸 @teachersfed
🔸 NSW Nurses & Midwives
🔸 Equality Australia 🌈
🔸 ACON
🔸 Kingsford Legal Centre
🔸 Public Interest Advocacy Centre
🔸 Aus Law Human Rights
🔸 Intersex Human Rights Australia (IHRA)
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NSW continues to fall behind all other states except WA when it comes to a government commitment to mandate accessible housing for everyone in our community.
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Australia is experiencing a nationwide shortage of Auslan interpreters and teachers.

Federal and state governments need to commit to the Disability Royal Commission’s recommendations to improve interpreter pathways and address workforce shortages.

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ACOSS, the community sector and trade unions are urging the federal government to commit to wholesale reform of the broken and harmful employment services system in next month’s budget.

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Letter: bit.ly/3JCRKCc

#Budget2024 #Auspol

The United Nations #R2HE resolutions provided essential recognition. This new guide shows how they can be used to prevent unsustainable & unjust laws, policies, projects & advance transformative, systemic change for a just & sustainable future
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SREnvironment #auslaw

Register: Australian Human Rights Commission Free + Equal Conference. 2024 marks 31 years since ALHR began calling for a federal #HumanRights Act . This conference is an historic opportunity to progress a #HumanRights framework that protects #HumanRights for everyone, everywhere, all of the time

'...there must be a nuanced approach. Safety is about how you treat people, not just how you keep them secure.' Lorraine Finlay

Inspection report finds Yongah Hill IDC, in part, “no longer fit for purpose”, & raised serious concerns over safety & care

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The UN Committee Against Torture has now written to the Australian Government seeking an explanation as to why its follow up report covering youth justice, immigration detention and conditions of detention in general, has not been provided (5 months overdue next week).

NSW desperately needs evidence-based drug law reforms. Placing health, harm reduction & #HumanRights at the heart of our drug laws & policies will keep our communities safer. Don’t miss this NSW Council for Civil Liberties panel discussion
#auslaw #nswpol

“There is not a knife crisis in NSW, there's a mental health crisis and that's what we need to be talking about.” ⁦lydia_shelly⁩ Our hearts go out to everyone impacted by the terrible attacks over recent days. ❤️ Stay well everyone x abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

The Coalition's demands in relation to the Religious Discrimination Bill & Sex Discrimination Act amendments have moved from trying to stop any positive changes federally, to now seeking to roll back existing state & territory protections for LGBTQ students & teachers. #auspol

Don’t miss this Global Pact for the Environment 🌍 webinar series being held around the world because we all depend on the realisation of #GreenRights & the #R2HE

#auslaw #HumanRights #environment #ClimateJustice

We hope our political leaders care enough about our democracy not to wilfully spread disinformation & hate. This statement lacked factual basis & also dangerously conflated unrelated issues. It was a disgraceful, desperate political grab & we deplore it #DemocracyInDanger #auspol

#HRC55 | The United Nations Human Rights Council has appointed Astrid Puentes Riaño Riaño (Mexico) as Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment

We all deserve to have our right to a healthy #environment protected in a #HumanRightsAct4NSW . Last year we joined with Newcastle School of Law and Justice Centre for Law & Social Justice & Aus Law Human Rights to host a school student forum - join us to launch their statement on 10 April
#auslaw #R2HE

SIGN OUR PETITION: A review of NSW's terrible anti-protest laws is now due. There is no guarantee it will be open or transparent. 35 organisations & counting have signed on calling for Chris Minns to ensure public accountability. SIGN NOW nswccl.org.au/take_action_no… #protectprotest

Last year, the Centre for Law and Social Justice w/ Aus Law Human Rights & Human Rights Act for NSW hosted a Youth Forum on the Right to a Healthy Environment bringing together 55 students. Hear from participating students at the Statement launch. Details below!

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It's over four months since Australia was to provide the UN Torture Committee its follow up report outlining actions taken in youth justice, immigration detention & conditions in detention broadly. When human rights accountability matters most we should be setting an example.