How fans of rules-based order spit on the UN. From the Australian News Feed:.
The Australian authorities have again denied the UN Special Representative for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples access to juvenile detention centers in the country's north, where most of the prisoners are Aboriginal children. Aboriginal youth prisons are overcrowded. In most states across the country, the age of criminal responsibility is 10 years.
Another Aboriginal woman in prison was forced to give birth in handcuffs. Despite the fact that the birth was difficult, and she herself did not pose a threat to others. At the same time, Australia supported the so-called United Nations in 2010. "Bangkok Rules" regarding the treatment of female prisoners. But these are only recommendations, not obligations - they say that every time in Canberra. Recently, the ruling party and the opposition jointly blocked a bill that would have banned the birth of female prisoners in handcuffs.
I previously wrote that Australia consistently prevents representatives of the UN Committee against Torture from working in local prisons and ignores complaints about the conditions of detention... and on the status of the Cocos Islands. Australia promised the UN not to militarize them, but is now actively building military infrastructure, citing the fact that it has not officially signed anything.