Organisation: UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

comment-analysis

Magdalene Laundry survivors have waited too long for redress

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

business

Housing is a right, and Ireland must recognise this in law

comment-analysis

Special needs supports in schools: No glory in handing out basic rights once denied

This Government is throwing the kitchen sink at single parents

Government must reverse austerity in run-up to 1916 celebrations

news

UN body calls on Ireland to revise its abortion laws

Noonan dismisses water levy protests

Today’s water charge protests have been dismissed by Minister for Finance Michael Noonan as just the opposition "having their last rally around the water issue".

Sat, 01 Nov, 2014

Kitt hits out at human rights policy

FORMER junior minister Tom Kitt has criticised government human rights policy just days after the Fianna Fáil TD called for Taoiseach Brian Cowen to consider standing down.

Sat, 25 Sep, 2010

Human rights a great idea, but not at home

YOUR political correspondent Harry McGee’s account (Irish Examiner, June 29) of the Government’s abject failure to deliver on its own promise of a rights-based Disability Bill highlights again the huge challenges facing those working to seek social justice in Ireland.

Tue, 19 Jul, 2005

Rights-based disability law urgent

THE health services attract such persistent criticism, despite the fact that billions of euro are poured into it, that another critical appraisal of one aspect of it is hardly surprising.

Mon, 10 Feb, 2003