More than one third of all family homes where a fatal fire occurred last year did not have fire alarms fitted.

Older people’s charities have called for greater action against elder abuse, with figures showing an average of almost 2,000 suspected cases formally reported to health authorities every year.

Pope Francis has overhauled laws that govern the Vatican City, criminalising leaks of information and specifically listing sexual violence, prostitution, and possession of child pornography as crimes against children that can be punished by up to 12 years in prison.

The Government has been urged to offer basic legal rights to adopted people before allowing for children in care and marital children to be legally adopted.

AS the Global Forum on Migration concludes its meeting in Brussels, Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) would like to restate the importance of protection and rights for migrant workers and their families and again calls on Ireland and other EU member states to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families (1990).

THE human rights of children in Ireland came under fire yesterday in an international report.

MORE than half of children in foster care are not happy with how their plights are reviewed, a survey published yesterday revealed.

The European Court of Justice has ruled that Ireland breached EU law by taking Britain before a United Nations tribunal in relation to the Sellafield nuclear plant.

DEPRESSING images of child poverty in Ireland will soon become a reality for the world to see as Barnardos, the country’s leading charity in this field, launches a website to heighten awareness of a grim scenario where young lives are blighted by alcohol, drug abuse and violence.