Government record on asylum seekers attacked

THE Government has been heavily criticised for how this country treats asylum seekers, member of the Traveller community, migrant workers and their families — and for not tackling racism adequately.

An Irish Human Rights Commission Report on our record on racial discrimination, published yesterday, calls for the restoration of resources to combat racial discrimination and abuse.

President of the IHRC, Dr Maurice Manning, said although Ireland is a multi-ethnic country, racial discrimination is a problem, and that human rights and equality infrastructure working to promote multiculturalism and combat racism had been either disbanded or disabled.