The woman at the centre of a United Nations report slamming Ireland's abortion laws says she hopes the Government will have the courage to change the law.

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”.

VICTIMS of torture should have the right to sue foreign governments for damages through British courts, a committee of MPs and peers has said.

THE governor of Mountjoy Prison has endorsed a proposal to allow former prisoners the right not to disclose convictions when applying for jobs or insurance.

OUR minister of state with responsibility for equality matters, Frank Fahey, was put through the wringer last week when he updated the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on Ireland’s progress in the field of women’s rights.