Australia Signs Protocol on Child Soldiers

Australia has signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict.

Our signature demonstrates Australia's continuing commitment, not only to the promotion and protection of children's rights in this area, but also to the Convention's broader objectives.

Australia Joins Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism

The Initiative aims to improve accounting, control and physical protection of nuclear and radioactive materials and facilities; suppress illicit trafficking, especially by terrorists, in such materials; respond to and mitigate any acts of nuclear terrorism; ensure cooperation in the development of technology; deny safe havens to nuclear terrorists; and ensure effective prosecution of nuclear terrorists.

complement Australian programs dealing with nuclear materials, as well as our counter-terrorism and counter-proliferation priorities in Australia and internationally.