Monitoring Ireland’s human rights obligations

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).

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FLAC, ICCL and IPRT to host ICCPR follow-up conference, 6 April 2009

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

UN Committee Upholds IPRT Concerns and Makes Extensive Recommendations on Prison Policy and Conditions

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 [...]