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Excessive strip-searching shines light on discrimination of Aboriginal women in the criminal justice system


human rights violations of Aboriginal women more generally.
While there are international legal instruments Australia endorses (like the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples), the government still makes little to no effort to uphold the rights of Aboriginal women in prison when it comes to self-determination and freedom from discrimination.
Ultimately, the system as it stands is operating in a culturally unsafe way.
Unnecessary strip-searches bring calls for inquiry
For any woman who is detained in prison, strip searches are a traumatic and confronting experience. Yet, in Australia, Aboriginal women detainees are strip searched at alarmingly higher rates than non-Indigenous women detainees. ....

June Oscar , Mick Gentleman , Wiyi Yaniu Thangani , Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service , Women Out Of Prison Coalition , Alexander Maconochie Centre , International Covenant On Civil , Human Rights Legal Centre , Australian Law Reform Commission , International Covenant , Political Rights , Indigenous Peoples , Melbourne Based Human Rights Legal Centre , Julie Tongs , Corrections Management Act , Keeping Women Out , Prison Coalition , ஜூன் ஆஸ்கார் , மிக் நற்பண்புகள் கொண்டவர் , பெண்கள் ஔட் ஆஃப் ப்ரிஸந் கூட்டணி , அலெக்சாண்டர் மகாநஶீ மையம் , சர்வதேச உடன்படிக்கை ஆன் சிவில் , மனிதன் உரிமைகள் சட்டப்பூர்வமானது மையம் , ஆஸ்திரேலிய சட்டம் சீர்திருத்தம் தரகு , சர்வதேச உடன்படிக்கை , பொலிடிகல் உரிமைகள் ,

Aboriginal women targeted in prison strip searches


AMC. Photo: Andrew Finch
IN a six-month period, Aboriginal women at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) were more likely to be strip searched than non-Aboriginal women, according to information provided to the Melbourne-based Human Rights Legal Centre (HRLC). 
In the period from October 1 to April 30 there were 208, or one a day, on average, strip searches conducted on women. Of those 121 (58 per cent) were conducted on Aboriginal women despite the fact that during this period only 44 per cent of the women were Aboriginal.
Of the 208 strip searches only three 1.5 per cent resulted in staff of the prison finding contraband, meaning 98.5 per cent (205 women) of women were forcibly strip searched and found to have no contraband on them.  ....

Mick Gentleman , Andrew Finch , Community Services , Alexander Maconochie Centre , Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health , Royal Commission , Human Rights Legal Centre , Melbourne Based Human Rights Legal Centre , Julie Tongs , Prisons Minister Mick Gentleman , Corrections Management Act , Corrections Management , மிக் நற்பண்புகள் கொண்டவர் , ஆண்ட்ரூ பிஞ்ச் , சமூக சேவைகள் , அலெக்சாண்டர் மகாநஶீ மையம் , அரச தரகு , மனிதன் உரிமைகள் சட்டப்பூர்வமானது மையம் , ஜூலி டங்ஸ் , திருத்தங்கள் மேலாண்மை நாடகம் , திருத்தங்கள் மேலாண்மை ,