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Ireland was reviewed by the UN Human Rights Committee under the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
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Ireland was reviewed by the UN Human Rights Committee under the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
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 [...]