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Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and the state's duty to protect
(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
(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, peacekeeping and policing the 'new world order'.
(Centre for Research and Documentation, 1997)The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the 'Cold War' has given rise to a situation where there is in effect one world 'superpower', the United States of America (US). The so called 'new world order' was intended ... -
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 ... -
Is the pursuit of international justice flawed? The Irish Times, 6 June 2013, p. 14.
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The Islamic veil and its discontents: how do they undermine gender equality
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2012)The article addresses the use of notions of gender equality and non-discrimination in the discussions concerning the practice of Islamic veiling by the European Court of Human Rights as well as by French authorities ... -
Israeli Action in Jenin far from a Proportionate Response
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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
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Joint submission to Oireachtas Committee on Children, Equality, Disability and Integration re: General Scheme of a certain Institutional Burial (Authorised Interventions) Bill
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Joint submission to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice regarding the General Data Protection Regulation
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 follow-up submission to the UN Human Rights Committee in respect of Ireland
(Justice for Magdalenes Research, 2014-07)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 ... -
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, ... -
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: 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 ... -
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 ... -
Keeping the people's voice in power: Coalition statement on the Electoral Act
(Coalition for Civil Society Freedom, 2018)We are a coalition of civil society organisations working to influence public policy for the benefit of people living in Ireland. The Wheel is Ireland’s national association of community and voluntary organisations, ...