Browsing Irish Centre for Human Rights by Author "O'Rourke, Maeve"
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10 ways institutional abuse details are still being kept secret
O'Rourke, Maeve (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
McGettrick, Claire; O'Rourke, Maeve (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 ... -
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
O'Rourke, Maeve (Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway, 2023)[No abstract] -
Burial of a child's remains: Resolving parental disputes
O'Rourke, Maeve (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), ... -
Clann Project submission re consultation process on the development of an ex-gratia 'Restorative Recognition Scheme'
McGettrick, Claire; O'Rourke, Maeve (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
McGettrick, Claire; O'Rourke, Maeve (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
O'Rourke, Maeve; McGettrick, Claire; Baker, Rod; Hill, Raymond (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 ... -
Concluding observations of the UN Committee against Torture, Recommendation to Ireland regarding the Magdalene Laundries, 2011
O'Rourke, Maeve (Hart Publishing, 2018-12-27)[No abstract available] -
Freedom of artistic expression and the referendum on the 8th Amendment
O'Rourke, Maeve (Irish Council for Civil Liberties, 2018-05-18)[No abstract available] -
Human rights and smart economics: Mainstreaming gender in international trade policy
O'Rourke, Maeve (UCD Law Review, 2009)At the time, the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing was applauded as a massive turning point for the status of women's human rights worldwide. Gender mainstreaming, established in the Beijing Platform for ... -
A human rights framework: Background Research for the Truth Recovery Design Process
O'Rourke, Maeve (Truth Recovery Design Panel, 2021-09-27)[No abstract available] -
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
O'Rourke, Maeve (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, ... -
ICCL submission to the Department of Health on the deprivation of liberty safeguard proposals
O'Rourke, Maeve (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 ... -
ICCL/ICHR submission to Oireachtas Justice Committee consultation on direct provision in Ireland
Irish Council for Civil Liberties; O'Rourke, Maeve (Irish Council for Civil Liberties, 2019-05-31)This is a joint submission by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and Dr Maeve O’Rourke of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway. -
Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and the state's duty to protect
O'Rourke, Maeve (Law Society of Ireland, 2011)Irish society has recently begun to come to terms with a legacy of systemic physical, sexual and emotional maltreatment of children from the 1930s to the 1970s in State-funded, Catholic Church-run Industrial and ... -
Ireland's Magdalene laundries: Confronting a history not yet in the past
O'Rourke, Maeve; Smith, James M. (Arlen House, 2016)On 19th February 2013, the Taoiseach and Tánaiste offered an emotional apology to women who had survived Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries – the infamous convents where over 10,000 girls and women were imprisoned and forced ... -
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
O'Rourke, Maeve (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 ... -
Joint civil society submission to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission seeking a human rights-based public inquiry into the experiences of people in residential care during the Covid-19 pandemic and their relatives and staff carers - policy contribution
O'Rourke, Maeve; Beattie, Majella; Moore, Muriel; Robinson, Sarah (Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway and Care Champions, 2023-02-22)[No abstract] -
Joint submission to Oireachtas Committee on Children, Equality, Disability and Integration re: General Scheme of a certain Institutional Burial (Authorised Interventions) Bill
Buckley, Sarah-Anne; Conway, Vicky; Enright, Máiréad; Fox, Fionna; Gallen, James; Hayes, Erika; Harney, Mary; Mackin, Darragh; McGettrick, Claire; Ó Fátharta, Conall; O'Rourke, Maeve; Scraton, Phil (Justice for Magdalenes Research, 2021-02-26)[No abstract available] -
Joint submission to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice regarding the General Data Protection Regulation
O'Rourke, Maeve; O'Nolan, Loughlin; McGettrick, Claire (Justice for Magdalenes Research, 2021-03-26)[No abstract available]