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10 ways institutional abuse details are still being kept secret
(RTÉ Brainstorm, 2019-09-05)The Taoiseach has tonight issued an apology on behalf of the State and its citizens to the victims of child abuse. Mr. Ahern made the apology as he announced a package of measures to tackle such abuse. These include the ... -
Adoption Rights Alliance, JFM Research, Clann Project Briefing Notes re. the Final Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation
(Clann Project, 2021)On Tuesday 12 January 2021, the Irish Government will publish the Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation (MBHCOI). The Government has stated that the Report is 3,000-4,000 pages long. We will be ... -
Assessing the long-term impact and legacy of truth commissions
(Intersentia Publishers, 2019-05)[No abstract available] -
Briefing note for the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child: `Historical' forced separation of unmarried mothers and children through adoption, `boarding out' Mother and Baby Homes, County Homes, Magdalene Laundries and related practices and institutions
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Burial of a child's remains: Resolving parental disputes
(Law Week Limited, 2013-02-28)A dispute between parents as to where or how to dispose of their child's remains may seem too tragic to countenance. However, it can occur, understandably, where two parents live far apart (in different countries even), ... -
Challenges in Applying Human Rights Law to Armed Conflict
(International Review of the Red Cross, 2005-12)The debates over the relationship between International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law, have often focused on the question of whether human rights law continues to apply during armed conflict, and if ... -
Clann Project submission re consultation process on the development of an ex-gratia 'Restorative Recognition Scheme'
(Clann Project, 2021-03-31)[No abstract available] -
Clann Project submission to the Committee on Children, Disability, Equality and Integration on the General Scheme of a Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill
(Clann Project, 2022-05-05)[No abstract available] -
CLANN: Ireland's unmarried mothers and their children: Gathering the data: Principal submission to the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes
(Justice For Magdalenes Research, Adoption Rights Alliance, Hogan Lovells, 2018-10-15)The Clann Project is a joint voluntary initiative by Adoption Rights Alliance ("ARA") and Justice for Magdalenes Research ("JFMR") in association with global law firm Hogan Lovells. The purpose of the Clann Project is ... -
Conceptualising human rights as international constitutional guarantees: promises and perils of comparativism
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Concluding observations of the UN Committee against Torture, Recommendation to Ireland regarding the Magdalene Laundries, 2011
(Hart Publishing, 2018-12-27)[No abstract available] -
Considering time in migration and border control practices
(Inderscience, 2016-10)Practices within the area of migration and border control are often analysed through a spatial lens. This is understandable: migration studies deal with movement of people across different places and spaces. Internatio ... -
Defences to international crimes
(Routledge, 2011)The label 'defences' can be used to describe a range of excusing or justificatory answers to a criminal charge, or as 'grounds for excluding criminal responsibility', according to Article 31 of the Rome Statute of the ... -
EU Bewildered by Ireland's Attitude to Peacekeeping Force for Macedonia
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Feminism, modern philosophy and the future of legitimacy of international constitutionalism
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2009)International constitutionalism relates to processes of limiting traditionally unrestricted powers of states as ultimate subjects, law-makers and law-enforcers of international law. Human rights occupy a central, but ... -
Freedom of artistic expression and the referendum on the 8th Amendment
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Hospitality and sovereignty: what can we learn from the Canadian private sponsorship of refugees program?
(Oxford University Press, 2012-09-10)This article addresses the tension between state sovereignty and refugee protection. The application of refugee law is often harshly criticized with such modern tendencies as increased border controls ...