IRELAND
Amnesty International
Amnesty International has called for an inquiry into allegations of decades of abuse suffered in Mother and Baby Homes in Northern Ireland, including site surveys to check if there are unmarked burials of babies and infants.
The renewed call from Amnesty comes after Ireland’s Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes has discovered a significant number of human remains in a decommissioned sewage chamber at a Mother and Baby Home in Tuam.
The organisation has called for a probe into abuse which former residents allege occurred in Mother and Baby Homes in Northern Ireland over a period of decades.
Amnesty International’s Northern Ireland Programme Director, Patrick Corrigan, said:
“Women in Northern Ireland have told Amnesty they suffered arbitrary detention, forced labour, ill-treatment, and the removal and forced adoption of their babies – criminal acts in both domestic and international law.
“Some also suspect that there was unofficial disposal of the remains of babies and infants who died at the homes.
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