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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Justice for Magdalenes Research: Stakeholder submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the Universal Periodic Review of Ireland
(Justice for Magdalenes Research, 2016-04)
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 ...
ICCL/ICHR submission to Oireachtas Justice Committee consultation on direct provision in Ireland
(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.
Justice for Magdalenes: Follow-up report to the UN Committee against Torture
(Justice for Magdalenes, 2012-05)
The Committee is gravely concerned at the failure by the State party to protect
girls and women who were involuntarily confined between 1922 and 1996 in the
Magdalene Laundries, by failing to regulate and inspect their ...
Justice for Magdalenes Ireland: Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review
(Justice for Magdalenes Research, 2011-10)
Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries were residential, commercial and for-profit laundries
operated in Catholic convents by four orders of nuns: The Sisters of Mercyi
, The Sisters
of Our Lady of Charity,
ii the Sisters of ...
Justice for Magdalenes Research: NGO submission to the UN Committee against Torture in respect of Ireland
(Justice for Magdalenes Research, 2017-07)
In 2011, the Committee Against Torture (‘the Committee’) made three urgent
recommendations13 to Ireland regarding the abuse of thousands of girls and women in
Magdalene Laundries between 1922 and 1996. The Committee ...
Justice for Magdalenes Research NGO submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in respect of Ireland
(Justice for Magdalenes Research, 2017-02)
Paragraph 5 of the Committee’s List of issues prior to reporting (LOIPR)i addresses
Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries abuse. The Committee asks Ireland about the
following:
(1) Whether the State will establish an independent, ...