Yesterday’s ruling in the North should lead to renewed calls, ahead of the election, for Ireland to repeal the Eighth Amendment, writes Ivana Bacik

Concerns over care standards experienced by patients treated in the North’s emergency departments have been flagged up by a human rights inquiry.

The Northern Ireland Assembly will debate the loyalist violence over City Hall’s decision to limit the flying of the Union flag.

The British government, Sinn Féin and the DUP are all failing the victims of the North's decades of violence, it was claimed today.

The chief executive of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission is to leave his post, it was revealed today.

PATIENTS embroiled in the Tallaght Hospital X-ray review scandal have called on the HSE to immediately confirm whether the crisis is being repeated in any other facility.

Politicians from throughout Ireland and the UK are gathering in Swansea today for the latest meeting of the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body.

THE Irish Human Rights Commission has appealed to the Government to reverse drastic cuts to its budget and warned any failure to do so will threaten its ability to carry out its functions.

Two men arrested in connection with the murder of a policeman were released without charge tonight.

The British government is tonight facing a fresh row over plans for a Bill of Rights for the North.

Former Fine Gael TD Maurice Manning was today re-appointed as president of the Human Rights Commission for a second five-year term.

Powers preventing the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission from raising questions about the intelligence services were today criticised by a committee of MPs and peers.

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and its Irish counterpart today called for the appointment of a top judge to examine the need for a cross-border public inquiry into the Omagh bombing.

A major initiative to help the tens of thousands of migrant workers in the North secure their rights – including government benefits and housing - was launched today.

The head of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission should be removed from office, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Ian Paisley claimed today.

Human rights must be given full and proper consideration in the drawing up of health policies, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commissioner claimed today.

Politicians in the North are today mulling over the detail of the potential deal for power sharing sketched out by the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British prime minister Tony Blair.

RELATIVES of the Omagh bomb victims are seeking talks with the head of MI5.

Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims are seeking talks with the head of MI5.

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission is to be given right of entry to prisons and powers to compel witnesses to give evidence to it, under proposals published by the British government today.

British government plans to allow on-the-run terrorists suspected of crimes to return home to Northern Ireland are being referred to the European Commission, it was announced tonight.

Methodist minister Harold Good has has said he is "certain, totally certain" that the IRA has disarmed.

The Northern Ireland Prison Service was heavily censured today in an official report on how treats women in custody.

A school where six boys were sexually abused by another pupil is facing legal action by one of the victims, it was confirmed tonight.

Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission chief Brice Dickson was refused a meeting police to discuss their investigation into the Omagh bomb atrocity, it was revealed today.

A DAMNING report into the detention of women and girls in a prison was issued by the North’s province’s Human Rights Commission yesterday.

A damning report into the detention of women and girls in a Northern Ireland prison was issued by the Human Rights Commission there today.

Relatives of the victims of the Omagh bombing have claimed that towns in the North are still not equipped to deal with similar attacks.

FORMER paramilitary prisoners could be offered greater protection from discrimination under the North’s single Equality Bill.

The Northern Ireland Prison Service and the Human Rights Commission were at loggerheads today over where women prisoners should be housed.

An inquiry is to be held into allegations of sexual abuse at one of Northern Ireland’s top preparatory schools, it emerged today.

LOYALISTS yesterday threatened major disruption across the North unless strip-searches inside a top security jail are cut back.

Loyalists today threatened major disruption across Northern Ireland unless strip- searches inside a top security jail are cut back.

A new human rights chief will be appointed in Northern Ireland within months, the British government announced today.

The British government’s record on human rights came under fierce attack from the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission at a major international conference today.

THE forthcoming referendum on Irish citizenship could lead to a rowing back of human rights provisions, the head of the Human Rights Commission claimed yesterday.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland has welcomed the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission report into its training of probationary constables and student officers.

THE British Government came under fire yesterday for failing to ensure the right to life was fully protected through proper investigation of all killings in the North.

All police officers in Northern Ireland will be expected to work with fairness and integrity under a new human rights rule book launched today.

Northern Ireland should have a new flag devised for it which can command the support of everyone, a political party argued today.

Recruitment into the new Police Service of Northern Ireland is two thirds higher than planned because of the on-going level of violence, Northern Secretary John Reid revealed today.

British security forces colluded with loyalist paramilitaries to murder a Belfast lawyer, the head of Northern Ireland’s Human Rights Commission said today.