Australian Human Rights Commission Submission to the CEDAW Committee – 12 June 2018 Recommendation 14: That the Australian Government consider the development of a federal compensation scheme for survivors of human trafficking and slavery; and development of a regulatory regime addressing international surrogacy arrangements. 10 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls (LOI 4 and 19, CEDAW articles 1–4, 11, 13 and 15) 40. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls continue to face systemic and structural barriers to the realisation of their human rights. 41. At 34% of the adult female prison population, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are the fastest growing and most overrepresented prison population.62 42. The Commission has consistently recommended that the Australian Government establish nationally agreed justice targets and strategies aimed at significantly reducing the number of Indigenous people in detention or gaol.63 43. Indigenous women’s over-representation in the justice system is also a factor that contributes to Indigenous children being removed from their families and put into care in increasing numbers.64 44. The Commission welcomes the findings of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory65 and other recent inquiries into child protection that make recommendations for improving child safety and the treatment of children and young people in out of home care and detention facilities.66 45. The Commission welcomes the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to respond to sexual abuse of children within private, public and non-government institutions and ensure child safe organisations into the future.67 46. The Australian Government’s social security measures, including the Cashless Debit Card, continue to have a disproportionate impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and, in particular, Indigenous women.68 Where the Cashless Debit Card takes a blanket mandatory approach and is not a community-led initiative, this disproportionately affects the most vulnerable—such as Indigenous women and single parents.69 47. The Commission has also raised concerns about the impact of the Australian Government’s Community Development Programme on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, which disproportionately affects the most vulnerable such as Indigenous women and single parents,70 and has made detailed recommendations for a new model.71 10