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).
Our Shadow Report, launched last week by Justice Michael Kirby has continued to receive wide coverage in the Irish broadcast and print media, as has Ireland’s examination by the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva. Please see the links below for a selection of the coverage. We have now also made available for download interviews [...]
FLAC, Tuesday, 15 July 2008
The UN Human Rights Committee said today that the Irish government’s explanation of how people are jailed for debt in Ireland was “not entirely convincing”. Mr Rafael Rivas Posada, Chair of the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC), was responding to Secretary General of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, [...]
