# Human Rights
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Voices
Opinion: 'At the heart of Irish law is an inescapable fact... we are second class citizens'
Amanda Mellet
29 Jul 2014
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Human Rights
Atheists not hopeful of 'blasphemy' referendum, in spite of UN pressure
27 Jul 2014
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Human Rights
Ireland told to stop sending people to prison for not paying fines
25 Jul 2014
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Human Rights
Fitzgerald says UN report will be examined but Ireland has its own constitutional position
24 Jul 2014
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no referendum
No plans to revisit abortion laws, in spite of severe criticism from UN
24 Jul 2014
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Explainer
Why did Ireland abstain from a UN Human Rights Council vote on Gaza?
24 Jul 2014
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Voices
Opinion: What will compulsory birth registration of unmarried fathers’ names mean for children?
Margot Doherty
18 Jul 2014
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Voices
Opinion: A woman pregnant by rape is treated as 'a vessel and nothing more' by Irish law
Deirdre Duffy
17 Jul 2014
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Human Rights
Look who's been nominated Ireland's new human rights commissioner...
17 Jul 2014
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Voices
Opinion: Once again, we've heard a depressingly familiar tune from Ireland on human rights
Kirsten Roberts
16 Jul 2014
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Human Rights
UN told symphysiotomy patients were 'operated upon wide awake and often screaming'
14 Jul 2014
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Voices
Opinion: Ireland’s record on civil and political rights comes under the UN spotlight
David Joyce BL
14 Jul 2014
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Still Angry
Alan Shatter wants a human rights commission to examine how the Guerin Report was put together
11 Jul 2014
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Voices
Opinion: Discrimination against the non-religious is being allowed to continue
Peter Ferguson
10 Jul 2014
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state obligation
Victims of mother-and-baby homes should give evidence in public if they want to - Human rights group
1 Jul 2014
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Human Rights
Ireland steps in to help speaker interrupted by Saudi Arabia at the UN
25 Jun 2014
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there are loads
From GSOC to asylum seekers, what are Ireland's human rights failings?
16 Jun 2014
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Exploitation
Concerns raised about some Irish businesses involved with Qatar World Cup
3 Jun 2014
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Voices
Opinion: What has the State done to protect citizens' human rights?
Noeline Blackwell
28 May 2014
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Transparency
Traveller and human rights groups to have their say on Garda oversight
14 May 2014
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Voices
Opinion: We fought the law but the law won – labelled 'foreign agents' in our own country
Stefania Kulaeva
2 May 2014
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Voices
Opinion: Across Europe, equality is being obliterated by austerity
Rachel Mullen
28 Apr 2014
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Voices
Column: Louise O’Keeffe ruling shows Ireland's school patronage system is unworkable
Peter Ferguson
3 Apr 2014
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Voices
Column: 'With a few surviving classmates, I stepped carefully over the dead and dying'
Jamie Walsh
27 Mar 2014
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Voices
Column: The European Commission is not recognising the human right to water
Paul Murphy
21 Mar 2014
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