Human Rights in Ireland welcomes this guest post from Luke Hamilton, Outcomes Research & Communications Intern at Doras Luimhní. “Every child deserves the chance to grow up in a free and equal environment. For children in Direct Provision, this is impossible” – compelling words from a refugee and mother in Limerick, who has witnessed children(…)
Human Rights in Ireland welcomes this guest post from, Claire Cumiskey. Claire is a Legal Officer in Nasc – The Irish Immigrant Support Centre. The Reception and Integration Agency has responsibility for providing for the needs of asylum seekers through the direct provision system while they await an outcome on their application for protection. However(…)
Human Rights in Ireland welcomes this guest post from Hadiq, an asylum seeker living in direct provision accommodation. My name is Hadiq. I am from Afghanistan. I have been an asylum seeker here in Ireland for the last two years. I am standing here today because I wish to express my feelings on the hardships and(…)
Today, Human Rights in Ireland is hosting a blog carnival on the system of direct provision. The blog carnival coincides with country wide events that are calling for a change in the current system whereby individuals who are claiming asylum may live in accommodation centres for several years while their claim for asylum or protection is being(…)
Irish women are still travelling to England to terminate their pregnancies. Meanwhile, the legal fallout of the Eighth Amendment mounts up. At the inquest into the death of Savita Halappanavar in Galway last week, a senior midwife manager explained how she had come to make the ‘Catholic country’ remark which, in the words of the(…)
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 European Court of Human Rights has recently decided a number of important cases on the scope of Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights. In its seminal decision in Siliadin v France (Judgment of 26 July 2005)(previously discussed by David Keane on Human Rights in Ireland here) the Court confirmed that States(…)
