Content warning -- mentions the death of an Indigenous Australian.
Leetona Dungay, mother of the late Dunghutti man David Dungay Junior, will take her family’s fight to the United Nations after feeling the Australian legal system has failed her son.
Mr Dungay died in custody in 2015, due to guard mistreatment. No one has yet been charged with his death.
Ms Dungay wants to hold the Commonwealth and New South Wales Government accountable for their failures to protect the lives of Indigenous people in custody.
She wants to highlight these problems on an international stage.