IRELAND
Irish Times
Dan Griffin
Fri, Jun 13, 2014
Victims who have suffered at the hands of those motivated by “religious ethos” need improved mechanisms for redress, according to a new report.
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has called on the UN Human Rights Committee to recommend that Ireland introduce “more effective, comprehensive and independent mechanisms” for “truth finding and redress” concerning victims of Magdalene laundries, symphysiotomy, mother and baby homes, and status-based employment discrimination.
The recommendation is the “overarching theme” in the ICCL’s fourth periodic examination of Ireland under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, according to the organisation’s director Mark Kelly.
The report also calls on the UN to urge Ireland to make provision for effective mechanisms to implement and enforce international human rights standards in Ireland, including the setting up of an independent National Human Rights Institution.
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