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Human rights and smart economics: Mainstreaming gender in international trade policy
(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 ...
Prolonged impunity as a continuing situation of torture or ill-treatment? Applying a dignity lens to so-called historical cases
(Springer and T.M.C Asser Press, 2019-03-28)
Around the world many survivors of so-called historical abuses persist in seeking truth and justice decades after rights violations have been perpetrated. Recognising that prolonged impunity may cause victims suffering ...
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 ...
The justice for Magdalenes campaign
(Bloomsbury Professional, 2015-10-22)
In February 2013, the Taoiseach1 issued a State apology to survivors of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries “for the hurt that was done to them, and for any stigma they suffered, as a result of the time they spent in a Magdalene ...
O'Keeffe v Hickey
(Hart Publishing, 2017-02-09)
[No abstract available]
Ireland's Magdalene laundries: Confronting a history not yet in the past
(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 ...
Concluding observations of the UN Committee against Torture, Recommendation to Ireland regarding the Magdalene Laundries, 2011
(Hart Publishing, 2018-12-27)
[No abstract available]