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Submission to the United Nations Committee Against Torture for the list of issues prior to reporting in respect of Ireland for the 69th Session (April May 2020)
(Irish Centre for Human Rights, 2020-01)
The Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR) at the School of Law, National University of Ireland,
Galway is Ireland’s principal academic human rights institute. The ICHR undertakes human rights
teaching, research, publications ...
Submission to the Joint Committee on Climate Action for pre-legislative scrutiny of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: A legislative ban on importing fracked gas
(Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway, 2020-11-11)
[No abstract available]
Submission to the Scottish Parliament's Education and Skills Committee, on the Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Bill
(Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway, 2020-10-01)
[No abstract available]
Ireland’s experience of memorialisation in the context of serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law: A submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence
(Justice for Magdalenes Research, 2020-01-24)
Background
The systematic sexual, physical and emotional abuses which children experienced in Ireland’s
Industrial and Reformatory Schools during the 20th century are discussed in the official report of the
Commission ...
Justice for Magdalenes Ireland: Submission to the United Nations Committee against Torture
(Justice for Magdalenes Research, 2011-05)
Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries were residential, commercial and for-profit laundries
operated by four Irish orders of nunsi
where between the foundation of the Irish Free
State in 1922ii and 1996, when the last institution ...
ICCL follow-up report to the United Nations Committee against torture: NGO submission to the United Nations Committee against Torture: Follow-up to the 2017 concluding observations of the committee against torture
(Irish Council for Civil Liberties, 2018-11-23)
This report by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) to the United Nations Committee Against
Torture (CAT) forms part of the process of ‘follow-up’ to the CAT’s second set of Concluding
Observations on Ireland, ...
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 ...
State involvement in the Magdalene Laundries: Justice for Magdalenes principal submissions to the inter-departmental committee to establish the facts of state involvement with the Magdalene laundries
(Justice for Magdalenes, 2012)
The Justice for Magdalenes (JFM) group submitted “State Involvement with the Magdalene
Laundries,” the group’s principal submission, to the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish
the facts of State involvement with ...
ICCL submission to the Department of Health on the deprivation of liberty safeguard proposals
(Irish Council for Civil Liberties, 2018-03-16)
The ICCL welcomes the State’s long-overdue effort to establish legal safeguards to protect the rights
of individuals who are or may be deprived of their liberty in care settings. Ireland has a long history of
failing to ...
Justice for Magdalenes Research follow-up submission to the UN Human Rights Committee in respect of Ireland
(Justice for Magdalenes Research, 2014-07)
Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries were residential, commercial laundries housed in
Catholic convents where between 1922i and 1996,ii well over 10,000iii women and
girls, as young as nine, were incarcerated and forced into ...