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# Human Rights

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Opinion: 'At the heart of Irish law is an inescapable fact... we are second class citizens'
Amanda Mellet
Atheists not hopeful of 'blasphemy' referendum, in spite of UN pressure
Over 226 prisoners in Cork still forced to 'slop out'
Ireland told to stop sending people to prison for not paying fines
Fitzgerald says UN report will be examined but Ireland has its own constitutional position
No plans to revisit abortion laws, in spite of severe criticism from UN
Poland found to be complicit in US torture programme
UN tells Ireland to open an investigation into symphysiotomy
UN: Ireland must take action to decriminalise abortion
Why did Ireland abstain from a UN Human Rights Council vote on Gaza?
UN rights council launches probe into Israel's Gaza offensive
Opinion: What will compulsory birth registration of unmarried fathers’ names mean for children?
Margot Doherty
Opinion: A woman pregnant by rape is treated as 'a vessel and nothing more' by Irish law
Deirdre Duffy
Look who's been nominated Ireland's new human rights commissioner...
'I will stay married': Transsexual woman defiant after court ruling
Opinion: Once again, we've heard a depressingly familiar tune from Ireland on human rights
Kirsten Roberts
UN told symphysiotomy patients were 'operated upon wide awake and often screaming'
Opinion: Ireland’s record on civil and political rights comes under the UN spotlight
David Joyce BL
Alan Shatter wants a human rights commission to examine how the Guerin Report was put together
Opinion: Discrimination against the non-religious is being allowed to continue
Peter Ferguson
What are the main issues surrounding fertility in Ireland?
Victims of mother-and-baby homes should give evidence in public if they want to - Human rights group
Elton John wants to visit with Putin to talk about gay rights
Over 200 refugees will resettle in Ireland in 2015 and 2016
Opinion: The ugly cost of the beautiful game in Brazil
Mary Lawlor
Ireland steps in to help speaker interrupted by Saudi Arabia at the UN
TD says sending children to adult psychiatric units is 'inhumane'
From GSOC to asylum seekers, what are Ireland's human rights failings?
Adams: 'Hooded Men' torture case needs to be re-opened
Concerns raised about some Irish businesses involved with Qatar World Cup
Opinion: What has the State done to protect citizens' human rights?
Noeline Blackwell
Traveller and human rights groups to have their say on Garda oversight
Hollywood stars boycott Beverly Hills Hotel over Brunei ownership
Opinion: We fought the law but the law won – labelled 'foreign agents' in our own country
Stefania Kulaeva
Opinion: Across Europe, equality is being obliterated by austerity
Rachel Mullen
43 dead in two days of drone attacks in Yemen
Column: Louise O’Keeffe ruling shows Ireland's school patronage system is unworkable
Peter Ferguson
Column: 'With a few surviving classmates, I stepped carefully over the dead and dying'
Jamie Walsh
Column: The European Commission is not recognising the human right to water
Paul Murphy
White says gay laws will ‘stigmatise and criminalise’… but won’t say that to Russian counterpart