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(…)
In the years preceding independence, the vision of Ireland as a women in need of protection became a standard of nationalism. Genderised Ireland has roots in Róisín Dubh and the Earl of Tyrone’s attempts to stay off the Tudor expansion in Ireland. Directly linking the Earl’s resistance to his daughter’s woes, standing in for a(…)
By the end of Friday, Illan Wall of this parish and I will be half-way through our ESRC seminar series ‘The Public Life of Private Law’. The programme for our second seminar is here. The focus of the second seminar will be on the uses of private law in seeking reparations for ‘human rights abuses’. In setting this theme we(…)
We are delighted to welcome this second 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(…)
We are delighted to welcome this 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(…)
Human Rights in Ireland is pleased to welcome this guest post from Ben Power. Ben is the Board and Company Secretary for Transgender Equality Network Ireland. For more information on TENI’s work see www.teni.ie Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) is Ireland’s national trans organisation. We seek to improve conditions and advance the human rights and equality of trans people(…)
Human Rights in Ireland welcomes this post from our regular author, Aoife O’Donoghue, as part of its contribution to Human Rights Week 2012. This post examines Ireland’s role within the various international human rights regimes over the past 12 months, particularly Ireland’s chair of the OSCE and the outcome of Universal Periodic Review. First, Ireland’s(…)
The Department of An Taoiseach has published the overly ambitious legislative agenda for the current Dáil and Seanad session. The Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2010 will (hopefully!) be heading to Committee Stage this term. The 2010 Immigration Bill has been around in essence since 2006, and will unlikely be coming into force for some(…)
Once again, another report on the conditions of the ‘soul destroying‘ direct provision system. This time on the horrible institutionalisation of children who live in direct provision centers. Lacking adequate nutrition, privacy, living in poverty and socially excluded from society, the Irish Refugee Council report, State Sanctioned Child Poverty and Exclusion dissects the injustice of(…)
The United Nations held its third session of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Rights of Older People in New York from 21-24 August, over a year since the second working session in August 2011. Some significant progress has been made in the lead up to this session, including the publication of the UN Office(…)
