Abbreviations and acronyms

Abbreviations and acronyms

ACCHO

Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

ACCO

Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation

Action Plan

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander First Action Plan 2023-2026

ALSWA

Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia

ANPM

Australian National Preventive Mechanism

ATSILS

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services

AYJA

Australasian Youth Justice Administrators

Beijing Rules

United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice

CAT

Committee against Torture

CRC

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Disability Royal Commission

Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability

FNAAFV

First Nations Advocates Against Family Violence

Help way earlier report

Australian Human Rights Commission, Help way earlier!’: How Australia can transform child justice to improve safety and wellbeing, 2024

ICCPR

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Law Council

Law Council of Australia

NLAP

National Legal Assistance Partnership

OPCAT

Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture

Our Youth, Our Way inquiry

Victorian Commission for Children and Young People, Our youth, our way: Inquiry into the over-representation of Aboriginal children and young people in the Victorian youth justice system, 2021

NAJP

National Access to Justice Partnership 2025–30

NATSILS

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services

NLAP

National Legal Assistance Partnership 2020–25

NPM

National Preventive Mechanism

Optional Protocol on a Communications Procedure

Third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Principles

Australasian Youth Justice Administrators, Principles of Youth Justice in Australia, 2014

RCIADIC

Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1987–1991)

Review of the National Agreement

Productivity Commission, Review of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, 2024

Safe and Supported framework

Safe and Supported, National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2021–2031

SCAG

Standing Council of Attorneys-General

SPT

United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Standards

Australasian Youth Justice Administrators, National Standards for Youth Justice in Australia,2023

UNCAT

United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

UNDRIP

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples