{"id":10953,"date":"2021-01-20T21:09:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T21:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/21\/china-attacks-australia-at-un-over-baseless-charges-as-canberra-criticised-for-keeping-children-in-detention"},"modified":"2021-01-20T21:09:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T21:09:19","slug":"more-than-30-countries-condemn-australia-at-un-over-high-rates-of-child-incarceration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/more-than-30-countries-condemn-australia-at-un-over-high-rates-of-child-incarceration\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 30 countries condemn Australia at UN over high rates of child incarceration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Human rights session calls on Canberra to raise age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 as China attacks Australia over \u2018baseless charges\u2019 <\/p>

Australia has come under international pressure to reduce the number of children in detention, with more than 30 countries using a UN human rights session to call on authorities to raise the age of criminal responsibility.<\/p>

Amid ongoing tensions between China and Australia, Beijing\u2019s representative took the opportunity on Wednesday evening to demand that Canberra \u201cstop using false information to make baseless charges against other countries for political purposes\u201d.<\/p>

Related: <\/span>'Treat children like children': Indigenous kids are crying out for help, judge says, not punishment<\/a> <\/p>

Related: <\/span>Australia 'choosing to invest' in hurting Indigenous kids, activist says \u2013 harming all of us<\/a> <\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Human rights session calls on Canberra to raise age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 as China attacks Australia over \u2018baseless charges\u2019 Australia has come under international pressure to reduce the number of children in detention, with more tha…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,1340,1208,1729,1730,190,2883,6,1853,2059,1206,238,111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10954,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953\/revisions\/10954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}