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(…)
We are delighted to welcome this guest post by Gearoid O Cuinn which is cross-posted with the Ceartas – Irish Lawyers for Human Rights website. Ceartas has submitted its report ‘Human Rights Standards and the Accreditation of RCSI-Bahrain’ to the Irish Medical Council highlighting past and on-going violations of rights within hospital facilities in Bahrain. News(…)
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We are pleased to welcome this guest post from Noreen O’Meara, lecturer at University of Surrey Law School. This is cross-posted from the UK Constitutional Law Blog. Much progress has been made following the agreement of the Brighton Declaration on reforms to the working practices of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The Brighton(…)
We are delighted to welcome this guest post by Verona Ní Dhrisceoil. Verona is a Fulbright Scholar and a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex. Last week, an International Conference on Language Rights was hosted by the Office of the Language Commissioner (Ireland), Fiontar (DCU) and the Language, Policy and Planning Research Unit, Wales.(…)
Amnesty International’s Annual Report on Northern Ireland and Ireland was published last week as part of its annual series of country reports. Globally, the report considered the world to be a more dangerous place for refugees and migrants and stated that countries were increasingly using the cover of ‘internal affairs’ to block full consideration of(…)
On June 12th 2013, Durham Human Rights Centre will host a major international workshop on critical debates on counter-terrorist judicial review bringing together speakers from Europe, Australasia and North America, from the academy and from practice. These speakers (who include Kent Roach, Mark Tushnet, Jules Lobel and Helen Duffy) will offer new and fresh perspectives(…)
We are delighted to welcome this guest post by Dr Edward Kanterian, who is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Kent. This post is cross-posted with Verfassungsblog. Hungary’s political development under the Orbán government is by now a familiar topic. In April Barroso confirmed the European Commission’s concern that Hungary’s new constitution infringe EU(…)
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(…)
‘I’ve got one thing to say to you, my boy … you can’t trust the Irish, they are all liars … and that’s what you have to remember, so just don’t forget it’. Death cannot constrain the effervescent charm of Margaret Thatcher. Or maybe Peter Mandelson, who revealed this gobbet of bile to(…)
