LNPS youth criminal law legislation of UN as “incompatible with basic children's rights” | Queensland

The special rapporteur of the United Nations about torture has asked the Parliament of Queensland to vote for the heading of the government of the government for youth crime and to describe them as “not compatible with basic children's rights”.

The Liberal National Government took place in the elections last October with a slogan of “adult crime, adult time”. The legislation passed to condemn children who were convicted of 13 crimes that were convicted in December as well as adults.

The parliament will consider a second legal round this week and add another 20 crimes.

In an open letter to the Australian authorities, Alice Jill Edwards, special reporting on Torture and Albert K Barume, special rapporteur for the rights of the indigenous peoples, the Australian criminal systems seem to be “nationwide in the crisis”.

They warned that the system “creates a future sub -class of Australians”.

“Children harm their security and well-being as well as their educational and life prospects based on short-sighted approaches to the crime and detention of young people.”

Edwards and Barume have expressly published the change calculation of Queensland safer (adult crime, time for adults) in the open letter.

“[The bill] Would have particularly negative effects on the life of indigenous children who are already disproportionately represented in the criminal law legal system. We call on members of the Queensland parliament to vote against the draft law, ”they said.

Edwards, a human rights lawyer, is the first Australian in the role.

In April, the Prime Minister of Queensland, David Criisafulli, criticized the UN because she interfered in local politics and said: “This place will regulate its laws”.

“This place will determine how we keep queenslanders safely, and this place will be Queenslanders, not the United Nations' Boffins,”, “he said.

However, the government has admitted that both legal rounds contradict the state and international human rights law, and the youth justice minister Laura Gerber would recognize that legislation “the right to protect against cruel, inhumane or humiliating treatment and the right to human treatment if they were emptied by freedom” by providing the assessment of houses to remove children.

Some of the crimes contained in the legislation of this week apply to a few or even youthful criminals.

According to statistics, which were shared by the Ministry of Youth Justice and the support of the victims with the parliamentary committee, some have not been committed in the past five years, such as:

Others are extremely rare; Only one child was guilty during this time to be kidnapped.

There were only 467 counts of the new crimes in 2024.

According to police statistics, around 624,414 crimes were committed in 2024. According to the Queensland Audit Office, youth crime makes about 13% of all crime.

Opposition leader Steven Miles announced on Monday afternoon that his party would support the expansion of the laws. Labor also voted for the first tranche.

“We will not oppose the attempts of the LNP to fix their mistakes,” said Miles. “Of course we couldn't stand in the way anyway. The LNP has a large majority and so these laws will say goodbye in both directions.”