IRELAND
Amnesty International
The recent public and political focus on allegations of human rights abuses in Mother and Baby Homes has rekindled an important public discussion about the need to address past human rights abuses, and the relevance of such issues to Irish society today.
But of course this is not a new debate in Ireland. In recent decades there have been a number of such investigations.
The abuse and exploitation of tens of thousands of Irish children in State funded institutions as detailed in the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (the Ryan Report) and the abuse detailed in the Ferns, Murphy (Dublin) and Cloyne Reports constitute arguably the gravest and most systemic human rights violations in the history of this State.
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