The UN's top rights official urges Australia to reform its criminal and refugee detention systems, just days after the country's prime minister took a veiled swipe at the international body
Christmas Island detention facilities - shuttered last year after 10 years in operation - were a central scene in the outcome of Australia's previous national elections.
The policy disproportionately affects indigenous children, who make up 70 percent of those aged under 14 held in Australian jails. Her comments came after conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week used a major foreign policy speech in Sydney to decry international institutions that he said "demand conformity rather than independent cooperation on global issues".
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