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Guest Post: Siobhan Cummiskey on Travellers as an Ethnic Minority
We are delighted to welcome this guest post from Siobhan Cummiskey, managing solicitor of the Irish Traveller Movement Independent Law Centre. You can find out more about Siobhan on the Guest...
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UK General Election: Alternative Manifestos
Liam and Cian have already summarised the election manifestos of the main(land) political parties (Lab., Lib. and Tory) in the forthcoming UK General Election. A number of NGOs and civil society...
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Student Law Reviews at TCD and UCC
The latest edition of the Cork Online Law Review is now available (free) here and features a number of interesting articles by undergraduate and postgraduate law students from Ireland and abroad....
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G and D: The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 in Northern Ireland
In November of last year the Ministry for Justice reported that some 86 forced marriage protection orders were made in the first year of operation of the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007...
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The Female Genital Mutilation Act 2010?
Today, Senator Ivana Bacik of Labour (pictured left) will be introducing a Bill to prohibit Female Genital Mutilation in the Seanad during the Labour Party’s private members’ time. The Bill and its...
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Forced Marriage in the Republic of Ireland
I was asked yesterday to give a sense of the extent to which situations like that of G and D – the Northern Irish case of two young girls who were at risk of being forced by their parents into marriage...
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Symposium: Towards A Gender Recognition Framework for Ireland
Friday 14 May 2010 Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, U.C.C., Room G10, 10.30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Speakers at the symposium include: Prof. Andrew Sharpe, School of Law, Keele University Prof. Stephen...
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Guest Post: Kieran Walsh on Forced Marriage and Child Abduction
We are pleased to welcome a third guest post from Kieran Walsh. In this post, Kieran continues Mairead’s discussion of forced marriage in the Republic and considers whether child abduction law could be...
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We Are Moving to humanrights.ie. Keep An Eye on Your Subscriptions!
We are about to make the move to www.humanrights.ie This is a reminder to email subscribers and those of you who follow us on RSS to please check your subscription after the changeover as you may need...
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Moving to www.humanrights.ie
We are moving to humanrights.ie The technical stuff is being done today so you may experience some disruption to your service – for example seeing the ‘old’ blog where you expected the new one. This...
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