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where detention is unavoidable, ensure that the children are detained in
separate facilities and for pre-trial detention, that detention is regularly and
judicially reviewed
review laws so as to repeal mandatory minimum sentences to children in
the Northern Territory and Western Australia
ensure that children with disabilities are not detained indefinitely without
conviction and their detention is regularly and judicially reviewed
provide children in conflict with the law with information about their rights
and how to report abuses.
Child victims and witnesses of crime:
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apply a child-friendly and multisectoral approach to avoid retraumatisation
of child victims, and ensure that cases are promptly recorded, investigated
and prosecuted, and that perpetrators are duly sanctioned
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put in place child-sensitive mechanisms for reporting of cases and ensure
that complaint mechanisms are available and child-friendly
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ensure that the national mechanism for the prevention of torture has
access to places where children are placed
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ensure the development of programmes and policies for the full recovery
and social reintegration of child victims
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guarantee child victims’ access to adequate procedures to seek
compensation for damages
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ensure that all child victims and witnesses of crime have access to
adequate support, independently of assisting police investigations,
prosecutions or trials.
Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography:
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define and criminalise child sexual exploitation for all children in
accordance with articles 1, 2 and 3 of the Protocol, and harmonise
legislation across its states and territories
ensure that crimes under the Protocol are investigated, and perpetrators
prosecuted and sanctioned, in addition to trafficking cases
ensure that all children subject to any form of sexual exploitation, sale or
trafficking, are treated as victims and not subject to criminal sanctions
amend its legislation to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction over sexual
exploitation of all children under 18 years, including sexual exploitation in
travel and tourism where child victims are between 16 and 18 years of age
further strengthen its measures to combat and prevent sexual exploitation
of children online, including by criminalising online grooming
strengthen training programmes on the identification and referral of child
victims of sale, sexual exploitation and trafficking.
Optional Protocol on children in armed conflict:
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