Sentences with phrase «death in custody came»

Sidney Stewart's death in custody came at a time when he had been working hard to see recognition of traditional lands and to make sure country could be handed on to future generations.

Not exact matches

When it has come to leadership in the Canadian government, women being favoured over men, 3 % of deaths in the workplace being women, 0.1 % of deaths in military service being women, 90 % of cases in dispute over child custody in divorces being awarded in favour of women.

The call comes as violent protests continue to roil Baltimore in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray, who died while in police custody.

It also came as Schneiderman opens his first case under the new special prosecutor powers in the death of Raynette Turner, who died in Mount Vernon police custody last month.

These tragedies come amidst deep, longstanding racial divides and on the heels of the deaths of other African Americans at the hands of police or in police custody.

Kathryn has a developing practice in inquests, with instructions coming mostly from her position as Junior Counsel to the Crown and largely involving deaths of long - term prisoners in custody.

Detractors have and will continue to cite the fact that CMCHA 2007 provides immunity for many government departments — importantly, the provisions relating to deaths in custody will not come into effect for at least another five years.

This development comes after the death in custody of Aboriginal man Steven Freeman in 2016 in the Maconochie Centre, the coronial inquest of which was conducted in August this year.

He came to the post with a long family history of activism on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights and a deep understanding of #JustJustice issues, as the former Director of the Koori Justice Unit, which coordinates the Victorian Aboriginal Justice Agreement — a formal partnership agreement between the Victorian Government and senior members of Victoria's Indigenous population set up in the wake of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

It also comes as a Western Australian coronial inquiry is hearing distressing details about the death in custody last year of Ms Dhu, the 22 year old Aboriginal woman held at the South Hedland police station for unpaid fines.

And it comes amid growing frustration in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities that decades of vital inquiries and recommendations for urgent change, such as those from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the Bringing Them Home report, end up in filing cabinets and on dusty shelves, not in action on the ground.

Despite the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the rate at which Indigenous people come into contact with the criminal justice system has not improved in the past decade: