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Category: Children’s rights

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Mental health, happiness of Australian children among the worst of rich countries, according to UNICEF reporT

Published September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 by Castan Centre in Australia, Children's rights, Right to Health, United Nations
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CHILDREN OF FOREIGN FIGHTERS: AUSTRALIA’S RESPONSIBILITY TO REPATRIATE

Published November 20, 2019 by Castan Centre in Australia, Children's rights

Arrests and uncertainty overseas show why Australia must legalise compensated surrogacy

Published November 24, 2016 by Castan Centre in Children's rights
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What’s the child sexual abuse royal commission got to do with the Convention on the Rights of the Child?

Published April 6, 2016January 5, 2017 by Tania Penovic in Child sexual abuse, Children's rights
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Government seeks to ramp up terror laws yet again

Published February 24, 2016March 22, 2016 by Adam Fletcher in Australian Law, Children's rights, Civil and political rights, Freedom, George Brandis
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Making commercial surrogacy illegal only makes aspiring parents go elsewhere

Published February 18, 2016April 6, 2016 by Dr Paula Gerber in Children's rights, Reproductive Rights
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It’s time to modernise Australia’s birth registration system

Published April 1, 2015 by Dr Paula Gerber in Children's rights, Indigenous rights
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Child workers in Vietnam face further exploitation

Published June 27, 2014June 26, 2014 by Castan Centre in Children's rights, Freedom from slavery/forced labour, Vietnam
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Deterring and denying asylum seekers in Australia

Published June 25, 2014June 24, 2014 by Azadeh Dastyari in Asylum, Australian Law, Cambodia, Children's rights, Freedom from cruel inhuman and degrading treatment, Indonesia, Migration Law, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Refugees
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Is the Australian government scared of children?

Published April 25, 2014April 25, 2014 by Melissa Castan in Australia, Children's rights, United Nations
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