Browsing Irish Centre for Human Rights by Issue Date
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Introduction to Post-Conflict Rebuilding and International Law
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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 ... -
State involvement in the Magdalene Laundries: Justice for Magdalenes principal submissions to the inter-departmental committee to establish the facts of state involvement with the Magdalene laundries
(Justice for Magdalenes, 2012)The Justice for Magdalenes (JFM) group submitted “State Involvement with the Magdalene Laundries,” the group’s principal submission, to the Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with ... -
Truth commissions, the European Union and reparations from business
(British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2012-01)Truth and reconciliation commissions are an increasingly common mechanism used in post-conflict or transitional societies. These commissions might act as means of accountability, establish a record of past events, help ... -
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 ... -
Hospitality and sovereignty: what can we learn from the Canadian private sponsorship of refugees program?
(Oxford University Press, 2012-09-10)This article addresses the tension between state sovereignty and refugee protection. The application of refugee law is often harshly criticized with such modern tendencies as increased border controls ... -
The "Reservations Dialogue" as a constitution-making process
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2013)The article proposes a new reading of the reservations regime to human rights treaties. The practice developed by states in relation to the reservations regime is analysed and presented as a constitution-making process. ... -
Is the pursuit of international justice flawed? The Irish Times, 6 June 2013, p. 14.
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International players fiddle while Syria burns
(The Irish Times, 2013)The UN Human Rights office estimated that more than 60,000 people have died in Syria's bloody civil war, surpassing the Syrian opposition's estimates by one-third. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay faulted ... -
Burial of a child's remains: Resolving parental disputes
(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), ... -
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 ... -
Rethinking human rights and culture through female genital surgeries
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015-02)The article revisits the relationship between culture and human rights through the analysis of one traditionally condemned cultural practice known in human rights law as female genital mutilation. The analysis draws on ... -
Retaliation and Reprisal, forthcoming in Marc Weller (ed.), Oxford Handbook on the Use of Force, Oxford University Press (2013)
(2015-04-17)This book chapter explores the evolution of the law on the use of force as it relates to armed reprisals and retaliation, particularly since the adoption of the Charter of the United Nations in 1945. While the preponderance ... -
International law, literature and interdisciplinarity
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-07-03)This article analyses the relationship between international law and literature from the point of view of its form of expression. Using insights from Deleuze and Guattari's analysis of Kafka's oeuvre as a ‘minor literature’, ... -
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 ... -
Conceptualising human rights as international constitutional guarantees: promises and perils of comparativism
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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 ...