Australia & Pacific
A UN rapporteur has declared that human rights are the Commonwealth’s responsibility alone. He also urged the prime minister not to give up on the Voice.
The UN's Indigenous rights rapporteur received 120 submissions from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the lead up to his visit, which helped inform his investigations.
The Queensland and the Northern Territory governments have blocked the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples from from inspecting youth detention centres.
Human rights lawyers have condemned the Northern Territory government's decision to lock the United Nations out of Darwin's youth prison and questioned what it is trying to hide.
The United Nations says its special rapporteur investigating human rights issues affecting Indigenous Australians has been blocked from visiting two youth detention centres.