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Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign
The Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign (ADJC) is a national campaign addressing the incarceration of people with cognitive impairments in jails and psychiatric institutions as a result of being found unfit to plead / mentally impaired.
The ADJC is campaigning on this issue across Australia.
A significant number of Aboriginal people with cognitive impairment are currently being held in maximum security prisons, despite not having been convicted or sentenced for a crime that would require them to be held in such a facility.
This situation is in breach of Australia’s human rights obligations, including those rights contained in the:
- The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
- UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
- Un Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
Latest News:
10 April 2013: Australian Human Rights Commission seeks to intervene in juvenile detention case
12 March 2013: Interview on Done By Law with Jordana Cohen
27 January 2013: Submission to the Senate Inquiry for the National Disability Insurance Scheme Word, 91kb
September 2012: No End in Sight: The Imprisonment and Indefinite Detention of Indigenous Australians with a Cognitive Impairment Word, 51kb
January 2012: Submission to the Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Foetal Alcohol Disorder from the Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign (ADJC) Word, 92kb
PWDA Publications
The E-Bulletin is a source of PWDA's internal news and developments in the disability sector at the state, national and international levels. It goes out to members and interested others regularly by email.
PWD E-bulletin #62, June 2010
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