Supporting Vulnerable Communities through Queensland’s Anti-Discrimination Act - A comparative investigation of the Queensland Anti-

4.1.1 Age of Criminal Responsibility in the Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld) In direct reference to anti-discrimination, section 26 of the Human Rights Act advocates for the protection of children in the statement: (2) Every child has the right, without discrimination, to the protection that is needed by the child, and is in the child’s best interests, because of being a child. [...] 4.2 Comparative analysis of AD Act to Relevant United Nations Instruments 4.2.1 Age of Criminal Responsibility in The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) The Committee on the Rights of the Child provided their concluding observations for the combined fifth and sixth report under the CRC on 27 September 2019. [...] Article 29: Indigenous peoples have the right to the conservation and protection of the environment and the productive capacity of their lands or territories and resources. [...] The preamble should refer to the fulfilling of obligations under the specific international human rights instrument of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. [...] The addition of a section dedicated to Land Rights and the Protection of Sacred Sites for Indigenous Queenslanders separated from the General Sites of Cultural or Religious Significance [s48 and s80] under Part 4 of the AD Act (Exemptions for discrimination in goods and services area, and exemptions for discrimination in disposition of land area).