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Human Rights Commissioner to focus on detention​

الجرافيك Prison wall and wire

Other areas of work in Commissioner Ed Santow's first year will include free speech and marriage equality.

Australia's new Human Rights Commissioner, Edward Santow, will use his first year in office to focus on the treatment of people in detention in Australia.

In a speech delivered earlier this month at the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Commissioner Santow said he would also focus on free speech and marriage equality.

Commissioner Santow said he hopes the federal Government will soon announce what it intends to do about the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT).

"Australia signed OPCAT in May 2009, but we haven't taken the final steps that would make it operational in Australia – namely, ratification and domestic implementation," Commissioner Santow said.

"Those steps would lead to Australia establishing what is known as a National Preventive Mechanism – essentially a network of independent Australian monitoring bodies that enter places of detention to identify practices that could be in breach of the human rights, and work with Australian governments to fix them.

"The horrifying images from the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, broadcast on Four Corners, exemplify the need for more to be done to protect the basic rights of Australia's most vulnerable detainees."

Commissioner Santow said he would also focus on human rights issues associated with free speech and with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) communities.

Date: 11 October 2016

Source: Australian Human Rights Commission


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  1. Prison wall and wire - APF/Michael Power