Human Rights in Ireland is pleased to bring you this guest post from Claire McCarthy, Policy & Campaigning Officer, at Nasc, The Irish Immigrant Support Centre. Ireland’s human rights record will be examined by our peers in the UN this coming October, when our turn comes up in a new UN process called the Universal(…)
Preparations are continuing in relation to the Universal Periodic Review (for background to this process, see here, here, here, here, here , here, here and here. Rights Now have finished their series of nationwide consultations and is holding a public meeting to review the outcome of the nationwide consultation by the Your Rights, Rights Now(…)
Organisations and individuals throughout the country are being called on to hold the State to account for its human rights record as part of a new campaign called ‘Your Rights. Right Now’. Ireland’s human rights record is being reviewed by the United Nations for the first time ever this year, under a new process called(…)
Human Rights in Ireland is delighted to welcome Jane Mulcahy, Research and Policy Officer for the Irish Penal Reform Trust who discusses the approach of the IPRT to the Universal Periodic Review process. As Ireland’s leading non-governmental organisation campaigning for the rights of people in prison and the progressive reform of Irish penal policy, IPRT(…)
Human Rights in Ireland is delighted to welcome this guest contribution from Stacey Scriver, a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Global Women’s Studies Programme in the School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway. Rape has long been recognised as a human rights issue and more specifically as a women’s human rights issue; indeed, almost 97%(…)
Human Rights in Ireland is delighted to welcome this contribution from Mary O’ Shea, the UN Universal Periodic Review Coordinator based in the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) is coordinating a civil society contribution to Ireland’s first assessment under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism of the UN(…)
In this post, Liam Thornton, from Human Rights in Ireland, offers some reflections on the nature and process of the Universal Periodic Review. These reflections do not necessarily represent the views of any of the individuals/organisations who have contributed to this UPR Symposium. As can be seen from the previous posts, the UPR offers the(…)
Ireland is due to be reviewed in 2011 under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council . The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process takes place every four years and covers all aspects of Ireland’s human rights record including, economic, social, cultural and political rights. This is a process of state review by other states(…)
