UN urged to intervene in mother and baby homes scandal

KRW Law said it represented women forced to give their babies up for adoption, forced into working in Magdalene Laundries and industrial schools and children separated from their parents and placed in industrial schools.

The United Nations (UN) has been urged to intervene in the Government's handling of Bessborough and other former mother and baby home sites.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has written to Fabian Salvioli, the UN's special rapporteur on truth, justice and reparations to raise concerns about the mother and baby homes commission report and a proposed Burials Bill that would allow for the exhumation of remains at Tuam and other sites.