# human-rights - Thursday 3 October, 2019
Legislation decriminalising abortion may be introduced this month if the Stormont executive doesn’t resume.
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# human-rights - Sunday 15 September, 2019
A unique human rights arts festival run by Smashing Times takes place in Dublin this month.
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# human-rights - Tuesday 10 September, 2019
Sahar Khodayari, dubbed ‘blue girl’, was due to stand trial for entering a stadium to watch her favourite team, Esteghlal FC.
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# human-rights - Thursday 25 July, 2019
An inspection of 52 of these 24-hour staffed residences found 43% did not provide single room accommodation for all residents.
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# human-rights - Monday 17 June, 2019
In its efforts to avoid paying compensation to victims, the State has spent €1.5 million on legal fees and re-traumatised some of its most vulnerable citizens, writes Conor O’Mahony.
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# human-rights - Saturday 18 May, 2019
Badr Baabou accepted an award for his work in Dublin this week.
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# human-rights - Thursday 9 May, 2019
The sad truth is that the enemies of the western powers look pretty good when compared to our close friends in Saudi, writes Diarmuid Pepper.
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# human-rights - Monday 6 May, 2019
Responding to the announcement, rights groups said it didn’t really change anything and didn’t go far enough.
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# human-rights - Saturday 16 February, 2019
Stop sharing videos of disabled people attempting to walk up the aisle, or stand for their first dance – pretending to be able-bodied is far from inspirational, writes Eileen Daly.
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# human-rights - Wednesday 30 January, 2019
Much of the media reporting focused on the alcohol intake of the victims but that it is not how fire inquests are normally reported, writes Jacinta Brack.
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# human-rights - Thursday 24 January, 2019
The European Court of Human Rights said police did not provide her with a lawyer or interpreter.
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# human-rights - Tuesday 8 January, 2019
In total 321 people in 27 countries were targeted and killed for their work.
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# human-rights - Friday 28 December, 2018
Mary Robinson has come under fire for claiming that an Emirati princess who has stated she is being held against her will is “in the loving care of her family”.
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# human-rights - Monday 19 November, 2018
Artur Celmer had claimed he could not get a fair trial in Poland.
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# human-rights - Thursday 1 November, 2018
Robinson is following in the footsteps of Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Kofi Annan.
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# human-rights - Friday 14 September, 2018
A report by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties has criticised some Garda policies and practices.
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# human-rights - Wednesday 1 August, 2018
John Allen says, ‘The insanity lies with a dysfunctional country, not a damaged child’.
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# human-rights - Tuesday 19 June, 2018
The US claimed that the UN is biased against Israel.
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# human-rights - Sunday 17 June, 2018
Thomas Hogan said that even as a child he knew the clergy ruled and that he couldn’t say anything negative about a Christian Brother.
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# human-rights - Saturday 9 June, 2018
Flac (Free Legal Advice Centres) has produced a comprehensive history of Foy’s right for justice in a report.
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# human-rights - Thursday 7 June, 2018
If the court rules that it does, it could lead to Westminster legislating for abortion in the North.
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# human-rights - Saturday 2 June, 2018
The military and a number of rebel groups have drafted underage soldiers for years.
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# human-rights - Tuesday 22 May, 2018
If the State is to have a obligation to step in to protect a one-month-old baby, it also has an obligation, four months earlier, to protect its right to be born, writes John Bruton.
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# human-rights - Sunday 13 May, 2018
Chris Kelly’s documentary A Cambodian Spring looks at the conflict between residents and government over land in the south-east Asian country.
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# human-rights - Sunday 6 May, 2018
‘Instead of standing right beside me, the State has stood right in front of me and blocked me every way and it’s going to fight me all the way to Europe.’
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# human-rights - Wednesday 25 April, 2018
Some people are waiting over two years for a decision on their asylum application.
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The 14 Hooded Men who were interned in the North in 1971 met with Tánaiste Simon Coveney yesterday.
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# human-rights - Monday 16 April, 2018
Alfie is in a “semi-vegetative state” as the result of a degenerative neurological condition.
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# human-rights - Friday 13 April, 2018
A date to switch off the life support for Alfie Evans has been set following a legal battle.
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# human-rights - Tuesday 27 March, 2018
Brown was at the centre of a major court battle that helped end widespread racial segregation in the US.
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# human-rights - Saturday 24 March, 2018
A European court ruled that the 14 men “did not occasion suffering of the particular intensity and cruelty implied by the word torture”.
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# human-rights - Tuesday 20 March, 2018
“I’ve never spoke to the European court about how we feel 45 years later,” one of the ‘hooded men’ Francie McGuigan said.
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# human-rights - Monday 19 March, 2018
A Sudanese journalist and painter talks about fleeing his home country after receiving death threats.
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# human-rights - Tuesday 6 February, 2018
About 2,700 girls living in Ireland may be at risk of undergoing the practice.
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# human-rights - Monday 18 December, 2017
A further condition of the settlement was that the staff involved attend a course of equality training.
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# human-rights - Thursday 9 November, 2017
The findings are contained in a new report which details experience of discrimination.
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# human-rights - Thursday 26 October, 2017
Her research led to the discovery of human remains at the site of a former mother and baby home in Tuam.
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# human-rights - Tuesday 24 October, 2017
Overcrowding, nutrition, healthcare and access to mental health services remain as issues for prisons in Ireland.
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# human-rights - Monday 23 October, 2017
The European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) found that the state was in breach of the European Social Charter.
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# human-rights - Wednesday 13 September, 2017
“This leads us on a direct path to dictatorship,” Senator Francis Pangilinan said.
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