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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, ...
Practice guidance for culturally sensitive practice in working with children and families who are asylum seekers: learning from an early years study in Ireland
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-01-09)
This article is based on a study of two early years services in the West of Ireland which was attended mostly by asylum seekers. Using a sample of the findings for illustration, we discuss how the study captured an example ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Folk belief and landscape in Connacht: accounts from the Ordnance Survey letters
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-04-03)
The Ordnance Survey of Ireland, carried out in the early-nineteenth century, was not just the process of mapping and collecting place names for translation as it is frequently depicted. The director of the Ordnance Survey, ...
Help seeking and help providing in Ireland
(Association of Children's Welfare Agencies (ACWA) and the NSW Family Services (FamS), 2019-12)
Recent developments in the Irish child welfare system have involved a targeted move towards the provision of accessible help at a more timely point for children, young people and their families. It is widely accepted that ...