The National Inquiry Into The Separation Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Children

Law reform is the modernisation of the law, bringing it up to current status with societal changes. In relation to human rights, specifically genocidal crime, law reform has been ineffective in protecting human rights on both a domestic and international scale. The article “The National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their families” goes into depth regarding the genocidal acts between 1910 and 1970 of the removal of Aboriginal children from their family homes. Statistics state that between 1 in 3 and 1 in 10 were forcibly removed from their families. The inquiry was created in 1997, over 50 years since the origination of the removals, proving that law reform was inconsistent and ineffective …show more content…
The inquiry goes into further depth about how the removal of Aboriginal children was categorised as genocide. “Bringing them home noted that the crime of genocide is not restricted to the immediate physical destruction of a group but includes the forcible transfer of children [article 2(e)] with the intention to destroy, in whole or in part, national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such.”, where law reform would have been necessary at this time to accommodate the safety and human rights of the children who were removed from their homes. This act was defined as unlawful through the inquiry which stated, “The inquiry noted that from 1948 onwards, the date of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, there were clear statements on the content of the crime of genocide and its