Sunday 4 December, 2022
Sophie King-Hill of Birmingham University looks at the controversy at this tournament.
Over 360 people, including 47 children, have been killed in the crackdown according to human rights groups
Twitter has been shaken to its core since Elon Musk acquired it – does it matter?
Fiona Crowley of Amnesty International Ireland says it’s time Fifa showed it really cares about human rights ahead of the tournament.
It’s estimated that 60,000 political prisoners are behind bars in Egypt
The meeting had already been postponed twice from its planned date in March
Opposition TDs have sharply criticised the Mother and Baby Homes redress scheme.
The prison sentence marks another source of tension between the historic allies, after Saudi Arabia raised oil prices
Teenage girls are still barred from school and women are required to cover themselves from head to toe in public, with only their eyes showing.
URC CEO Martin Anayi has defended the league’s new sponsorship deal with Qatar Airways.
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) said that the Government should invest €8.6 million in a number of human rights measures.
On World Humanitarian Day, Paul O’Brien documents the suffering of those Somaliland on the front line of climate change.
Brendan McNamara says we cannot turn a blind eye while minorities are persecuted for their faith.
Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman proposed the office be set up following the signing into law of the Institutional Burials Act.
The Committee has called for the Government to remove barriers for women seeking access to abortion services.
The national anti-trafficking rapporteur listed education, the war in Ukraine and age identification as concerns.
Dean Van Nguyen looks at how Ireland has helped Ukrainian refugees and wonders why others have not been treated as well.
Rights groups have also called on Gardaí to record the ethnicities of people stopped and search in order to prevent discrimination.
A group of academics and people with lived experience of treatment under the legislation advocate for a human rights based approach to treatment under proposed laws.
FLAC’s Eilis Barry says LGBTQI+ rights have come a long way, but much still needs to be done.
The Australian former world number one is heading the new LIV Golf Invitational Series which is heavily backed by Saudi financing.
The findings come as the Government reviews Ireland’s equality laws.
Speaking at the Fifa Congress in Doha, Lise Klaveness said the 2022 finals were awarded ‘in unacceptable ways, with unacceptable consequences’.
On Friday, human rights’ group, Reprieve, said a further 16 people have been killed in the country since the mass execution of 81 men on 12 March.
Saudi Arabia said Saturday it had executed a record 81 people in one day for terrorism-related offences.
Thousands of Ukrainians displaced by Russian attacks have been arriving in Lviv and waiting days to board trains and buses travelling to Przemyśl.
The broadcaster lends his support to a group of NGOs seeking an end to EU trade with Israeli settlements in occupied territories.
The governments of Hungary and Poland had argued that such action lacked a proper legal basis.
Human Rights Commission says current law disproportionately impacts minority groups.
The woman says she suffered abuse and witnessed the beating of children and a pregnant woman.
The UN report said that, in addition to the political killings, women’s freedoms and the right to protest had also been curbed.
Russian authorities have in recent months mounted pressure on rights groups, media outlets and journalists, naming dozens as foreign agents.
The group has spent years cataloguing atrocities committed in the Soviet Union.
Trócaire’s Paul Healy tells of a different Christmas in Somalia this year, among those struggling to stay alive.
The report detailed allegations of torture, rape and inhumane treatment.
The country joins the US in the boycott, over concerns around China’s human rights record.
China has accused the United States of violating the Olympic spirit.
Noteworthy’s Maria Delaney and social care worker Anne Marie Quilligan tell Susan Daly about the conditions faced by Traveller children in the country’s education system.
Minister for Equality Roderic O’Gorman will lead the Irish delegation and deliver a speech at today’s hearing.
The army seized power in February from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, but has failed to quell the widespread resistance.
