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# Children's Rights

Last month
October 2023
TikTok gets green light to challenge €345m fine from watchdog over children's privacy failure
TikTok claims the Data Protection Commissions decision to fine it was ‘disproportionate’.
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Oct 23rd 2023, 4:02 PM
Last year
2022
'Significant gear change' needed to address children's rights shortfalls
The warning comes after the Ombudsman for Children’s Offices published two major reports that have been submitted to a UN Committee.
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Sep 7th 2022, 9:59 AM
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Opinion: 'I spent fewer than six months in a mother and baby home and I was traumatised'
Mother and baby home survivor Beth Wallace says no one can suggest those who spent fewer than six months there were not traumatised.
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Nov 26th 2021, 7:00 AM
Opinion: This government needs to prioritise childcare after a decade of underfunding
Early Childhood Ireland’s Frances Byrne says years of inadequate funding have crippled our childcare system.
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Jul 12th 2021, 7:00 AM
Ombudsman for Children criticises Government and declares 2020 a 'devastating year' for young people
The OCO said most complaints were centred around education in 2020 and particularly associated with the Leaving Certificate.
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Jun 16th 2021, 7:52 AM
Rat infestations and overcrowding: Probe into Cork halting site exposes dangerous living conditions
Activists say the conditions negatively impact upon children’s rights.
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May 24th 2021, 12:52 PM
Children's Rights Alliance: This government must do better when it comes to education
Saoirse Brady of the Children’s Rights Alliance says this difficult time could offer an opportunity to recalibrate the education system.
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Feb 23rd 2021, 3:00 PM
Opinion: 'She knocked on the door and the nun said her son was gone' - the story of the forgotten foster children
Jamie Canavan is researching the stories of children who were forced into ‘boarding out’, a term given to fostering in the early to mid last century.
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Jan 31st 2021, 8:30 AM
Government TD says 'absurd' ban on naming child victims needs to end
Deputy O’Callaghan also wants Government to consider increasing the maximum sentence for knife crime.
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Jan 29th 2021, 5:24 PM
Children with disabilities waiting years for assessment a violation of their rights, committee to be told
Over 6,000 children are currently overdue an assessment of their needs.
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Dec 1st 2020, 6:15 AM
Ivana Bacik: Children who are born in Ireland belong here
Labour Senator Ivana Bacik says the 2004 referendum has caused needless suffering and she’s asking the Government to back a new Bill addressing this issue.
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Nov 24th 2020, 7:00 AM
'Ireland lost one of our greatest champions of children': Tributes paid to advocate Norah Gibbons
Gibbons was involved in several projects to protect the rights of children and vulnerable groups.
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Apr 9th 2020, 10:39 AM
Mary McAleese says the Vatican is moving backwards on children's rights
The former president says the church is embroiled in a dispute with the governing body of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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Sep 13th 2017, 2:02 PM
"We call this residential care, I call it institutionalisation of trauma": Group calls for better child protection
The Irish Care Leavers’ Network is dedicated to supporting people coming out of State care.
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Feb 26th 2017, 8:00 AM
Most complaints made to children's watchdog are about schools
The office dealt with 1,639 complaints in 2015.
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Sep 28th 2016, 11:00 AM
"At the moment, court is a very frightening place for a child" - young victims in Ireland's legal system
A case of severe child abuse that recently passed through the courts showed some of the provisions in place to help protect minors.
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May 24th 2016, 6:15 AM
The UN has called Ireland out on religious schools' 'discriminatory admissions policies'
A number of human and children’s rights groups have called for action in addressing a number of issues.
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Feb 4th 2016, 5:45 PM
The number of children living in poverty could fill Mayo
“In its last year in office, how will the Government respond to these children?”
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Feb 23rd 2015, 5:03 PM
Opinion: Legislation is urgently needed following Supreme Court ruling on surrogacy
It is a fact of life that parents will enter into arrangements of whereby a third party bears their child – so we need legislation that deals directly with surrogacy.
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Nov 7th 2014, 6:10 PM
Nobel committee shocked by guy who says Malala 'hasn't actually done anything'
Bizarre question throws Peace Prize announcement for a loop.
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Oct 10th 2014, 1:58 PM
When Ireland can't help, here's where children can turn to
Charlie Flanagan has signed an important protocol to a UN convention to strengthen children’s rights.
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Sep 24th 2014, 7:26 PM
Philomena Lee to speak about her experience of forced adoption in Ireland
The event will see a number of different international experts discussing children’s rights in Ireland.
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Aug 27th 2014, 7:15 AM
Opinion: Once again, we've heard a depressingly familiar tune from Ireland on human rights
Ireland’s appearance before the UN Human Rights Committee was disappointing: we have not made the changes recommended four years ago.
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Jul 16th 2014, 1:00 PM
New law would make it complusory for fathers' names to be included on birth certs
The new Bill has been described as “the most important reform of family law for a generation”.
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Jul 10th 2014, 5:24 PM
Government fails Traveller, migrant children and those who are at risk of poverty
The Children’s Rights Alliance gave the government an overall ‘C’ grade in this year’s report card.
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Feb 25th 2014, 1:12 PM
New child protection agency to be officially launched today
The Child and Family Agency will take over from the HSE in relation to child welfare.
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Jan 30th 2014, 7:38 AM
Children's Ombudsman has "trust of the public" needed for Roma cases probe
Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald explains why Emily Logan has been given power to compel gardai to speak to her.
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Oct 26th 2013, 3:19 PM
Ireland 'must ratify' protocols to UN convention on child protection
The Children’s Rights Alliance says Ireland has only signed up to one of three optional protocols to the UN convention.
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May 28th 2013, 9:24 PM
Van Turnhout in discussions with Fine Gael over filling Mitchell's MEP seat
TheJournal.ie has learned that the senator is in discussions over the possibility of joining Fine Gael and running for the seat being vacated by Gay Mitchell next year.
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Mar 23rd 2013, 7:30 AM
Column: Last year's multi-million euro underspend in mental health is unacceptable
In a year when many families and communities lost a child or young person to suicide, it makes no sense that €29 million pledged to be spent on mental health was not used, writes Tanya Ward.
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Feb 19th 2013, 7:00 AM
New bill introduces definition of a grandparent
Fine Gael TD said it is an unusual piece of legislation as our laws do not generally address such personal issues as familial bonds.
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Feb 18th 2013, 3:53 PM
Government awarded overall C grade in 2013 report card
The report card comes from the Children’s Rights Alliance, which put the Department of Social Protection at the bottom of the class due to child poverty.
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Feb 18th 2013, 7:15 AM
Putin says he will sign anti-US adoptions bill
The Russian president said today he will sign a controversial bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children.
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Dec 27th 2012, 3:00 PM
Referendum website's 'Like' button illustrated bias for Yes vote
The Supreme Court delivers its full ruling into why the Government’s website for the Children’s Referendum was not impartial.
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Dec 11th 2012, 3:35 PM
‘Baby boxes’: what they are, and why the UN wants them banned
Revival of medieval ‘foundling’ boxes in which abandoned babies were placed send “bad message to society”.
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Dec 1st 2012, 8:30 AM
Column: We've passed the children's referendum, but there's more to do
The sexual abuse scandals in Australia’s Catholic Church and the BBC show that there is still work to do beyond the contitutional change passed earlier this month, says the Children’s Rights Alliance.
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Nov 20th 2012, 7:30 PM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Good morning! Here’s the nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
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Nov 18th 2012, 9:00 AM
Constituency-by-constituency: How you voted
Which electoral area had the highest proportion of ‘Yes’ votes? Which one had the highest percentage of ‘No’ ballots? And into which top 10 does the Taoiseach’s home constituency fall?
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Nov 11th 2012, 4:30 PM
Column: ‘I want the best for children, which is why I am voting No’
Pat Kavanagh says she has serious questions about the new Child and Family Support Agency.
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Nov 9th 2012, 7:00 AM
Column: ‘Vote Yes to end the culture where children are seen and not heard’
Fergus Finlay says countless reports documented Ireland’s failings to protect children, but this constitutional amendment will change that.
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Nov 9th 2012, 7:00 AM
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