'Stop jailing 10-year-olds': Indigenous boy addresses UN on Australia's youth detention laws

A 12-year-old Indigenous boy from Australia's Northern Territory is believed to be the youngest to address the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Dujuan Hoosan says he wants to see an end to the jailing of 10-year-olds in Australia. Source: Supplied

Twelve-year-old Indigenous boy Dujuan Hoosan has appealed to members of the United Nations Human Rights Council to help bring to an end the jailing of 10-year-old children in Australia. 

"I want adults to stop putting 10-year-old kids in jail," he said before the council. 

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Dujuan Hoosan told the UN Human Rights Council that he wants 'adults to stop putting 10-year-olds in jail'.

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