Founded in 1993
Contact Details:
- Contact person: Damon Martin
- Address: Level 2, 313-315 Flinders Lane, VIC 3000, Australia
- Phone: (+61) 3 9614 8755
- Phone 2: (+61) 3 9614 1577
- Website: www.iss.org.au
- Facebook: International Social Service Australia
- Twitter @ChildRightsAust [/su_column] [/su_row]
Fields of Interventions:
Since 2014, International Social Service (ISS) Australia has been the Australian section of DCI. It continues to advance children’s rights, with a focus on the areas of:
- raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility across all Australian jurisdictions to the CRC standard of 12 years
- regulating international commercial surrogacy in accordance with the rights of the child
- advocating for Australian ratification of the CRC-OP3 to allow individual communications concerning Australian breaches of the CRC
- banning smacking and all forms of violence against children in all Australian settings
ISS/DCI Australia is a member of the End Child Detention Coalition, the international Ratify OP3 coalition, and Australia’s Child Rights Taskforce. It also has a representative on the steering committee of the Child Rights Taskforce, the peak body bringing together over 100 child-focussed non-governmental organisations around Australia, which coordinates CRC shadow reports and collaborates on specific advocacy matter
