Indigenous children’s voices essential to Royal Commission
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Children’s advocates say Indigenous voices, and particularly those of Indigenous children, should be given great weight in a Royal Commission into juvenile detention in the Northern Territory.
The Federal Government is legally compelled to ensure this happens through Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was ratified by the Australian Government in 1990.
It requires the Federal Government to engage children and young people in the development of laws and policies likely to affect them.
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