Australia: Silence on human rights: Government responds to "Stolen Children" inquiry

Index Number: ASA 12/002/1998
Date Published: 4 March 1998
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, Australia

This document gives AI's reaction to "Bringing Them Home: National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families" , the report by the national human rights commission on the investigation of the removal of thousands of indigenous children from their families under past government policies. AI calls on the Australian state and federal governments to act on the recommendations in this document.