The Mother and Baby Homes Commission is obliged under human rights law to provide information to family members about where their relatives are buried — despite claiming it is legally prohibited from doing so.

A mother who lost her child to adoption through a mother and baby home, maternity hospital, and adoption agency, has been refused access to her personal records by the state inquiry investigating the issue.

The Department of Justice is calculating payments for the newly expanded Magdalene redress scheme on the basis that “no child under the age of 12 years of age worked in a Magdalene Laundry” unless it can be proven otherwise.

Official Ireland took its time, and Magdalene Laundry survivors had to wait far too long for acknowledgement as well as an apology, the justice minister has admitted.

It’s been five years since the Government apologised to the women of the Magdalene Laundries but it has yet to implement restorative justice, writes Maeve O’Rourke

Magdalene campaigners have questioned why a State apology was given to laundry survivors when the Government denies the State has any liability in the matter.

Justice for Magdalenes Research and Adoption Rights Alliance have launched a pro-bono legal initiative to assist witnesses drafting statements to the state commission of inquiry.

The Government is adopting economic policies with no regard for their effect on people’s welfare or rights despite their continuing to increase poverty, according to a UN committee reviewing Ireland’s social rights commitments.

Breandán Ó Loingsigh (Irish Examiner, Letters, 28/1/2015) is concerned that children up for adoption will be randomly assigned to same-sex couples, depending on the adoption queue.

Magdalene campaigners and human rights groups have hit out at the Government’s legislation as “unacceptable, unfair and full of broken promises”.

Last week the Government announced the establishment of an ex-gratia redress scheme for women who underwent symphysiotomy.

Once in a while you read an article that makes you wonder if it’s meant to be taken as a joke or not.

I was sickened to read of the meeting between the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) and the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland (Irish Examiner, March 8). Abusive priests have been shown too much compassion by their victims and the Irish public.

I fail to see Margaret Hickey’s (Letters, February 18) concern about children being raised by same-sex couples.

A philanthropic fund to assist adopted people and natural parents to trace their relatives has been set in the wake of Oscar-nominated film Philomena.

The Government has been told that its refusal to commission an independent investigation into the treatment of women in Magdalene Laundries is an issue that is “not going to go away”.

Justice For Magdalenes (JFM) Research has hit out at the Government’s response to UN criticism’s of the McAleese report as “an outrage” which “beggars belief”.

It was the ensuing witch hunt, and not the events at Slane, that deserves condemnation, writes Sam Boland

A barrister who has represented victims of the Magdalene Laundries as a law student has been awarded a prestigious legal accolade in Britain.

The fallout from the McAleese Report is sure to continue, says Conall Ó Fátharta

Denied justice and an apology by the State and Taoiseach Enda Kenny, the women of the Magdalene Laundries deserved a better response, writes Maeve O’Rourke

Campaign group Justice for Magdalenes (JFM) has accused Taoiseach Enda Kenny of cruelty and ineptitude in his refusal to apologise to the survivors of Magdalene laundries.

Justice for Magdalenes is to submit over 500 pages of newly gathered survivor testimony to Senator Martin McAleese — testimony in which women say they were imprisoned in Magdalene laundries and had worked without pay.

The Justice for Magdalenes group said today that survivors of abuse are still waiting for an apology, one year on from a UN reccommendation.

MAGDALENE laundry survivors have called for an apology as well as basic compensation from the state in the form of a pension.

JUSTICE Minister Alan Shatter is under pressure to announce an inquiry into the detention and abuse of women at the Magdalene Laundries after the UN criticised the state’s failure to protect the women and called for a thorough investigation and compensation scheme.

A support group for survivors of the Magdalene Laundries has demanded a state apology after an international torture watchdog recommended a statutory inquiry.

The United Nations watchdog on torture has criticised Ireland’s prison conditions and accused the state of failing to protect women confined to Catholic Church workhouses.

The United Nations Committee Against Torture has called for an independent investigation into the Magdalene Laundries and allegations of abuse there.

A UN committee urged the Government to set up an independent investigation into human rights violations in the Magdalene Laundries and give redress to the women who suffered because of the institutions.

THE advocacy group seeking justice for women kept at Magdalene laundries will today take their campaign to the United Nations Committee Against Torture.

The Government must launch an official inquiry into the treatment of women and girls detained in so-called Magdalene Laundries, it was ruled today.