Human Rights Watch highlights more Indigenous Australians died in custody last year than in 2021, and that new laws targeting climate protesters resulted in harsher penalties against activists.
The federal government said it was working closely with states and territories on increasing the minimum age of criminal responsibility, and that action in the Northern Territory was evidence of progress being made.
The organisation said new laws targeting climate protesters in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania had resulted in harsh penalties."Human Rights Watch spends a lot of time in Asia, speaking to authoritarian governments who are jailing peaceful activists … and then, suddenly, I've got a situation in Australia where our government is sending peaceful activists to jail too," she said.
It said China continued to repress the Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang, restricted freedom in Tibet and had imposed strict COVID-zero policies that forced millions into lockdown.
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