AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
May 21, 2013
Anna Patty and Harriet Alexander
A coalition of 30 legal, community, health and women’s organisations have complained to the United Nations about planned changes to the NSW victims’ compensation scheme on the grounds they will particularly discriminate against women.
The groups which include Community Legal Centres NSW and Women’s Legal Services have written to the UN special rapporteur on violence against women.
The Community Legal Centres NSW chairperson Anna Cody said the law will not only disadvantage thousands of victims already in the claims system, it will make it even harder for female victims of crime to claim in the future.
The complaint says the government bill runs counter to the UN’s recommendations on reparation for women who have been subjected to violence.
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