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(…)
We are delighted to welcome the latest in a series of cross-posts by Dr Shane Darcy from the Business and Human Rights in Ireland Blog. The Business and Human Rights in Ireland Blog is dedicated to tracking and analysing developments relating to business and human rights in Ireland. It aims to address legal and policy issues, as well(…)
We are delighted to welcome this guest post by Sheona York. Sheona is a Clinic Solicitor at the Kent Law Clinic which is based at Kent Law School. The recent and proposed cuts to legal aid in England and Wales represent a profound attack on the rule of law. The proposed cuts will significantly limit(…)
This morning Hong Kong took a giant leap forward in protecting transgender rights in a judgment of the Court of Final Appeal which will allow a trans* woman to marry her partner. In a judgment that some Irish politicians could do well to take note of the Court concluded that in multicultural jurisdiction such as(…)
We are delighted to welcome another cross-post by Dr Shane Darcy from the Business and Human Rights in Ireland Blog. The Business and Human Rights in Ireland Blog is dedicated to tracking and analysing developments relating to business and human rights in Ireland. It aims to address legal and policy issues, as well as highlighting human rights concerns(…)
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(…)
“Local authorities were stoutly opposed to the committal of [Traveller] children to industrial schools as this would allow the maintenance of children to become a burden the ratepayers” (Report of the Commission on Itinerancy, 1963, page 66) This year represents the fiftieth anniversary of the Report of the Commission on Itinerancy, a report which(…)
We are delighted to welcome another cross-post by Dr Shane Darcy from the Business and Human Rights in Ireland Blog. The Business and Human Rights in Ireland Blog is dedicated to tracking and analysing developments relating to business and human rights in Ireland. It aims to address legal and policy issues, as well as highlighting human rights concerns(…)
In these recessionary times advocates for human rights in Ireland are increasingly met with a gateway demand: to relate rights to austerity rhetoric. Why rights, why now? The tendency is to dismiss rights as ‘entitlement culture’, and view rights advocates as lobbyists with unrealistic expectations.
A number of key themes emerged over the day as regards the system of direct provision. Firstly, the posts from those who have experienced the direct provision themselves (see here, here and here). These posts give but a glimpse of what it must be like to live, without a right to work, in a communal(…)
