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Aboriginal group call for Rio Tinto to be stripped of human rights recognition

[Aaron Fernandes, SBS]

Vickie Roach on Indigenous deaths in custody prison abolition

[Michael Dulaney, ABC]

Aboriginal and human rights organisations are calling for mining giant Rio Tinto to be removed from a global index promoting its human rights record, following the destruction of culturally significant sites. 

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On the night of her 18th birthday Vickie Roach witnessed her first death in custody. Even though she was a teenager Ms Roach was serving a six-month sentence in an adult prison.

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