{"id":9908,"date":"2021-01-18T21:17:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T21:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/19\/un-countries-challenge-australias-indigenous-incarceration-record-in-human-rights-review"},"modified":"2021-01-18T21:17:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T21:17:50","slug":"un-countries-challenge-australias-indigenous-incarceration-record-in-human-rights-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/un-countries-challenge-australias-indigenous-incarceration-record-in-human-rights-review\/","title":{"rendered":"UN countries challenge Australia&#8217;s Indigenous incarceration record in human rights review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nations question delay in raising age of criminal responsibility to 14 and response to Uluru statement<\/p><p>The Australian government is to be challenged over the country\u2019s lack of progress in reducing rates of Indigenous incarceration at a UN hearing this week.<\/p><p>Sweden and Uruguay have submitted questions in advance about the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australian prisons, while Germany wants to know why Australia has delayed a push to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2019\/sep\/26\/australia-urged-to-follow-un-advice-and-raise-age-of-criminal-responsibility-by-four-years\">raise the age of criminal responsibility<\/a> from 10 to 14 years.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/18\/australias-anguish-the-indigenous-kids-trapped-behind-bars\">Australia's anguish: the Indigenous kids trapped behind bars<\/a> <\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/18\/hell-scared-how-a-terrified-homeless-boy-found-himself-locked-up-alone-in-the-hole\">'Hell scared': how a terrified homeless boy found himself locked up alone in the 'hole'<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/19\/un-countries-challenge-australias-indigenous-incarceration-record-in-human-rights-review\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/19\/un-countries-challenge-australias-indigenous-incarceration-record-in-human-rights-review\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nations question delay in raising age of criminal responsibility to 14 and response to Uluru statementThe Australian government is to be challenged over the country\u2019s lack of progress in reducing rates of Indigenous incarceration at a UN hearing this w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1208,6,1853,2059,640,111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908"}],"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=9908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9909,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions\/9909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}