The Office of the Ombudsman has recently played a significant role in highlighting maladministration in the operation of our social welfare legal code, in particular in relation to supplementary welfare allowance and direct provision for asylum seekers over the last few days. Supplementary Welfare Allowance and Direct Provision The Ombudsman has release her report, Appeal Overruled: A(…)
On June 6th the Faculty of Law and the School of Nursing and Midwifery at University College Cork will host a conference on Children’s Rights to Healthcare and Healthcare Services. Speakers include the Ombudsman for Children Emily Logan, Professor Johnathan Hourihane of UCC, Dr Elspeth Webb, Consultant Paediatrician and Clinical Reader in Child Health at(…)
The School of Law and the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway in association with the Irish Centre for International Family Mediation will host a conference on 18 May 2013 entitled “A Conference on Mediation in Cases of International Family Conflict and Child Abduction”. Leading Irish and international speakers and experts in the(…)
Human Rights in Ireland welcomes this guest post from Dr Fiona Donson. Fiona is a lecturer at UCC Faculty of Law specialising in Human Rights, Administrative Law and Criminal Law. She was formally a human rights worker in Cambodia where her experience included health and employment rights projects in Garment factories and child rights projects for UNICEF and(…)
There will be a Day of Action on Tuesday, 23 April as part of the Campaign to End Institutional Living relating to the system of direct provision for asylum seekers in Ireland. This issue has been considered and discussed at great length on this blog (see all past posts on direct provision here). A large number of(…)
Human Rights in Ireland welcomes this guest post from Samantha Arnold. Samantha is the Children’s and Young Persons’ Office at the Irish Refugee Council. She is the manager of the Independent Advocacy Pilot, a pilot that provides one-to-one support for separated children seeking asylum. Click here to get involved or to attend an upcoming charity(…)
Over recent weeks, the issue of direct provision has been raised on several occasions within and outside the Irish Parliament (see here, here and here). Breda O’Brien’s excellent article in Saturday’s Irish Times and a letter by a practicing Cork based GP in today’s Irish Times add further weight to the calls (since 2001) for a fundamental reform of this punitive(…)
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international treaty that seeks to set down the rights that all children enjoy regardless of their colour, creed, race, ethnicity, political opinion, gender, gender identity, sexuality, nationality or legal status in the country. The CRC has been ratified by every state in the world, with the exception of(…)
The last week or so has been significant from the perspective of LGBT rights in Ireland in respect of employment equality and marriage equality. In both areas legislative change to remove clear inequalities has been proposed over the past week and, in the case of marriage equality, the attention of the Constitutional Convention has been(…)
We are delighted to welcome this guest post by Andrea Mulligan. Andrea’s previous post on surrogacy is here. Assisted reproduction remains entirely unregulated in Ireland and the courts increasingly find themselves teasing out the complexities of new reproductive technologies without any legislative guidance. The Supreme Court tackled frozen embryo disposition in Roche v Roche [2010] 2 IR 321, and(…)
