ABSTRACT

The CLAN Rights Charter asserts rights in records for Care leavers who were taken from their homes and families and communities, and placed in orphanages, children’s Homes, foster Care and other forms of institutions. The Australian Charter of Lifelong Rights in Childhood Recordkeeping in Out of Home Care is a response to the critical, largely unmet recordkeeping and archival needs of both children and young people in Care today, and Care leavers, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people and their families, and Stolen Generations. It focuses on their lifelong and diverse recordkeeping needs. The recordkeeping rights specified in both Charters are essential enablers for the exercise of human rights, including participatory, identity, memory and accountability rights. They provide a rights-based foundation for addressing the continuing recordkeeping failures, the major gaps in the archival record, and the weaponisation of data and records that plague the Care sector. In the paper, we discuss the research and advocacy contexts of the two interrelated Charters, and our mapping of the Charters aimed at cross-validation and identification of gaps. We then explore the challenge of translating the Charters into transformative practice, advocating for their adoption and developing guidelines for their implementation.

摘要

该CLAN权利宪章声称在谁是取自家庭和家人和社区，安置在孤儿院护理毕业生记录的权利，儿童之家，寄养和其他形式的机构。澳大利亚户外护理中儿童记录保存终身权利宪章是对当今护理中的儿童和年轻人以及护理离开者（包括土著和托雷斯海峡岛民儿童、年轻人及其家人以及被偷走的一代）的关键的、基本上未满足的记录保存和档案需求的回应。它侧重于他们终生和多样化的记录保存需求。两个宪章中规定的记录保存权是行使人权的重要推动因素，包括参与权、身份权、记忆权和问责权。它们为解决持续的记录保存失败、档案记录中的主要差距以及困扰护理部门的数据和记录的武器化提供了基于权利的基础。在论文中，我们讨论了两个相互关联的宪章的研究和倡导背景，以及我们对章程的映射，旨在交叉验证和识别差距。然后，我们探讨了将宪章转化为变革性实践、倡导采纳和制定实施指南的挑战。