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 full programme is now available for the ICCL/ FLAC/ IPRT conference Implementing Human Rights in a Time of Change: Facing Up to Challenges under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), taking place on 6 April 2009 in the Radisson Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin 8. Please click here to download in PDF [...]
The UN made available a press release on the weekend in which preliminary observations on Ireland’s examination last week by the Human Rights Committee were laid out as follows:
Preliminary Concluding Observations
RAFAEL RIVAS POSADA, Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee, in preliminary concluding observations, highlighted that a number of points and concerns raised by [...]
