IRELAND
The Journal
REDRESS FOR WOMEN of the Magdalene Laundries should be immediately be acted upon, Justice for Magdalenes Research has said.
Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFM), welcomed the publication of the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) Follow-up Report on State Involvement with Magdalen Laundries, which gives a detailed overview of the “systemic human rights failings” on the part of the Irish State in relation to the girls and women of the Magdalene Laundries.
JFM said it echoes the IHRC’s call that the State immediately put in place a system of redress for survivors of the Magdalene Laundries which “should provide for individual financial compensation for the impact of the human rights violations concerned”.
JFM said such a redress fund must be independently monitored, have an appeals process and be placed on a statutory footing with independent statutory powers.
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