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Disability Justice Campaign

Australia (National)2019, ongoingFirst Peoples Disability Network, People with Disability Australia
Active
Goals

What this campaign seeks

End indefinite detention of people with cognitive disability under unfit to plead laws

Tactics

How it works

Royal Commission submissions, UN CRPD reporting, legal challenges

Outcome and status

Where it stands

Disability Royal Commission recommended reforms. Legislative change pending in most states.

Issue areas

Categories

disabilityfitness-to-pleadindefinite-detention
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