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Aboriginal Children and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Pertinent comment from the NCBA Report “Where Rights are Wronged”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Jenny Durrant
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Abstract

Where Rights Are Wronged: A critique of Australia's compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was published in March of this year. It is a report of the National Children's Bureau of Australia for the Children's Rights Coalition by consultants Graeme Brewer and Phillip Swain.

Type
Research Article
Information
Children Australia , Volume 18 , Special Issue 1 , 1993 , pp. 9 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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