The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has released a statement on the responsibilities of governments to reduce harm from climate change. Here’s what’s in it for Australia.
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As federal and provincial governments bring in measures to make child care more affordable, the voices and needs of children with disabilities must not be ignored.
In New Zealand, you can be considered capable of criminal intent from the age of ten. But this is young by international standards, and many believe reform is overdue.
Western European states are ignoring the international legal rights of children and using national security arguments to avoid responsibility for them.
When children are drawn into their countries’ informal justice systems, their human rights are often threatened.
Sessions ignored the many gospel teaching about love, and used a passagethat has been used historically to justify all manner of immoral behavior, including imperialism, slavery, Nazism and apartheid.
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Professor, Department of Public Law and Jurisprudence, University of the Western Cape and Professor of Children's Rights in the Developing World, University of Leiden, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer, University of Notre Dame
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Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law, University of Reading, University of Reading
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW
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Assistant Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria
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Assistant Professor of International Law, University of Reading
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Adjunct Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato