# Human Rights
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a hard rain's a-gonna fall
UN official calls for Bush and Cheney to be charged with torture
12 Dec 2014
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Disappeared
North Korea 'experiments on disabled people before leaving them to die'
12 Dec 2014
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Discrimination
South Dublin County Council votes to recognise Travellers as an ethnic minority
11 Dec 2014
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Tortured: ‘They called a doctor to check if they could continue without killing me’
Josefina Salomon
10 Dec 2014
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one hundred and eleven welcomes
Ireland has given 111 Syrians permission to live here this year
9 Dec 2014
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Human Rights
Man wanted by US on terrorism charges brought before Dublin High Court
25 Nov 2014
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Opinion: Without meaningful action, apologies to child abuse survivors are just words
Mark Vincent Healy
24 Nov 2014
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torture files
Hooded, food and sleep deprived: Calls for Ireland to push for torture case against UK
24 Nov 2014
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Opinion: If the USA practises torture, then so could any other country
Kirsten Roberts
2 Nov 2014
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Human Rights
Emily Logan says new commission will make her office more powerful and give new level of independence
31 Oct 2014
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Human Rights
Journalist wins case against Iceland over report on addiction centre sex abuse
21 Oct 2014
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Voices
Opinion: What happens when a pregnant woman or nursing mother gets sent to jail?
Dr. Mary Rogan
21 Oct 2014
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investigative journalism
Mary Raftery's articles are set to be re-published online
15 Oct 2014
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Voices
Opinion: Human rights must be put at the heart of the budgetary process
Aoife Nolan
13 Oct 2014
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Voices
Opinion: Employees can still be discriminated against over their sexuality – this must end
Senator Ivana Bacik
26 Sep 2014
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Strasbourg
Ireland needs to send a new judge to the European Court of Human Rights
18 Sep 2014
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Voices
Column: 'Protecting human rights in Colombia is a dangerous business'
Karol Balfe
14 Sep 2014
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Conflict
A Dublin councillor has travelled to the West Bank to work as a human rights observer
8 Sep 2014
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Voices
Opinion: 'These human rights abuses have a very real and clear link to Ireland'
Kirsten Roberts
2 Sep 2014
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Voices
Opinion: Support for suicidal woman was complicated, not assisted, by abortion legislation
Niamh Ui Bhriain
18 Aug 2014
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Voices
Opinion: A law that protects no one – the Eighth Amendment sees women as incubators
Stephanie Lord
18 Aug 2014
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Allegations
Amnesty accuses Israeli army of "deliberate attacks" on Gaza health workers
7 Aug 2014
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Voices
Opinion: Happy 14th birthday, Direct Provision – just think of everything you haven't achieved!
Fiona Hurley
4 Aug 2014
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Voices
Opinion: In South Africa, it's often said that being gay is a 'western' thing
Ali Watson
2 Aug 2014
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Gaza
'Not sitting on the fence': How the government wants backbenchers to explain Ireland's UN abstention
2 Aug 2014
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Torture
Obama: US "tortured some folks" after 9/11, but critics should not be "too sanctimonious"
1 Aug 2014
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Voices
Opinion: Neither nation can survive without freedom and independence for the Palestinians
Nurit Peled-Elhanan
31 Jul 2014
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Voices
Opinion: Proposed transgender laws are good news for lawyers – not couples
Michael Farrell
31 Jul 2014
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