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).
The Human Rights Committee’s sent a follow-up letter to Ireland on 4 Jan 2010.
It is now on the Human Rights Committee website HERE.
You will see from the letter that the Committee is largely satisfied with the Government’s information on measures adopted to improve detention conditions and steps taken with a [...]
Speaking at a major international conference in Dublin today, UN Human Rights Committee member Professor Michael O’Flaherty has decried what he described as the “scandal” of the government having made deep cuts to the budgets of bodies including the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) and the Equality Authority, only weeks after the UN’s top human [...]
