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OHCHR states Australia failed to protect indigenous Torres Islanders

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Published on: 23 September 2022

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LNB News 23/09/2022

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Issue Date: 23 September 2022

Published Date: 23 September 2022

Jurisdiction(s): United Kingdom

Article summary

The United Nations Human Rights Committee (OHCHR) has found that Australia failed to timely and adequately protect indigenous Torres Islanders against the impacts of climate change, which violated their rights to enjoy their culture, free from arbitrary interference with their private life, family and home. Australia has been asked to compensate the indigenous Islanders for the harm suffered, asses the needs in these within the communities and assure the communities’ safe existence on their respective islands.

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