Mandatory Detention

Paper presented at the seminar 'Who is minding the children?' Wednesday 18 June, Ella Latham Auditorium, Royal Children's Hospital, Melboune by Hon. Alastair Nicholson AO RFD QC, Honary Prefessorial Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne; Chair, Children's Rights International.

Other speakers at the event were Dr Georgia Paxton, a senior paediatrician at RCH, the Rt. Hon. Malcolm Fraser AC and the Hon. Frank Vincent AO. The event was orgainised by Dr Paxton with the assistance of Professor Garry Warne on behalf of Childrens Rights International.

Revised 30 June 2014

Address by the Honourable Alastair Nicholson AO RFD QC

Chair Children’s Rights International

Australian Human Rights Commission, Sydney, NSW, 10 June 2016

Acknowledgments: Gadigal people of the Eora Nation; Megan Mitchell, National Children’s Commissioner; Tara Broughan, UNICEF Australia and Ahram Choi, NCYLC, Co-Chairs of the Australian Children’s Rights Task Force

This report by the Australian Child Rights taskforce convened by UNICEF Australia and the NYCYLC on the progress of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in the 25 years since Australia ratified the Convention, while indicating a number of areas of progress in this area, also highlights serious deficiencies in our national performance.

Smits, V.M.
20 – 23 March 2005

Phnom Penh, 5 May 2021

This joint statement has been agreed upon by many parties including Childrens Rights International.

It is an initiative strongly supported by UNICEF and significant Departments of the Cambodian Government as well as a wide range of NGO's and is an attempt to recreate an initiative that led to the introduction of the Juvenile Justice Law, which was highly successful.

Sandor, Danny
20 - 22 September 2001

Joint statement by Australian organisations and community groups
13 February 2015

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians
May, 2015
145 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW, 2000