Rights Monitor brings you up-to-date news about human rights on the international stage, brought to you by three Ireland-based NGOs: Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC), the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), and the Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT).
Today the UN Human Rights Committee has issued its Concluding Observations (recommendations) following its recent examination of Ireland’s human rights record in Geneva. Among these very detailed recommendations, the Committee has taken up the concerns about prison policy and prison conditions set out in the NGO Shadow Report which was launched on 14 July 2008 [...]
FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres) has welcomed the concluding observations of the UN Human Rights Committee on Ireland’s implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
According to FLAC’s director Noeline Blackwell “The Committee’s observations are welcome as an objective and expert assessment of progress in implementing human rights in Ireland. The Committee has [...]
