Don’t Forget Indigenous Women When You’re Marching For Justice
1 in 3 First Nations women and gender diverse people will be raped. 1 in 17 of us will be murdered. Don t ignore us.
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I’m only speaking for myself when I say this, but as a First Nations person and a woman, this has been an especially heavy time. We’ve seen three First Nations deaths in custody in the same week, two of which, only revealed under questioning. One woman and two men. In addition to this, we’ve been hearing about our Australian Government’s lack of care when it comes to the safety and well-being of women, even in their own workplace. When you’ve got white cis straight men on one side telling us that non-male identifying people are nothing, acting like First Nations lives mean nothing, what are we supposed to do? How are we supposed to feel?
World - and Australia - move closer to cannabis decriminalisation - Criminal Law mondaq.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mondaq.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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At a 30 November meeting, NSW government cabinet ministers
discussed a three-tiered system of depenalisation for the offence
of personal drug possession.
First spruiked by attorney general Mark Speakman, the
step-in-the-right-direction policy gained broad, but not unanimous, support.
A conservative minister went on to leak word of it to the Seven
Network. It then misrepresented the policy as decriminalisation,
whereas the government proposal doesn t aim to remove the
criminal offence altogether, but it would rather heighten the
threshold as to when sanctions apply.
Under the depenalisation model, a person found in possession of
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The laws of armed conflict or international humanitarian law
(IHL) are a set of rules governing what can and cannot be done
during war.
The four Geneva Conventions and their protocols
comprise the majority of the law, with almost all nations agreeing
- in principle - to follow them.
As the just released Brereton report reveals, the laws are
often breached. Indeed, not only does the report detail a redacted
account of the recent 39 alleged murders in Afghanistan, but it
also provides a history of Australian war crimes pertaining to the