Justice for Magdalenes Research follow-up submission to the UN Human Rights Committee in respect of Ireland

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2014-07Author
O'Rourke, Maeve
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O'Rourke, Maeve. (2014). Justice for Magdalenes Research follow-up submission to the UN Human Rights Committee in respect of Ireland, Justice for Magdalenes Research.
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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 unpaid labour.