Submission on Australia’s state party report to the Committee Against Torture

In a joint submission to the United Nations Committee Against Torture, Change the Record, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services and the Human Rights Law Centre call on the Albanese government to end human rights abuses in prisons and police cells.

Mistreatment that can amount to torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment is too common in prisons and police cells across the country.

The coalition calls on the Committee into Australia’s compliance with the Convention Against Torture to recommend that all levels of government:

  1. ban the barbaric and archaic use of solitary confinement, routine strip searching and spit hoods in places of detention across Australia; 

  2. repeal dangerous and discriminatory bail laws; and 

  3. raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to at least 14 years old.

Read the Submission on Australia’s state party report to the Committee Against Torture here.

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