NORTHERN IRELAND
The Irish News
January 13, 2021
By Suzanne McGonagle
https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2021/01/13/news/call-for-full-scale-northern-inquiry-following-republic-s-mother-and-baby-homes-report-2185700/
AMNESTY International last night called for a “fullscale inquiry into the appalling tragic scandal of mother and baby homes” in Northern Ireland.
Women forced to give birth in the homes and the children born in the institutions have joined with the charity in calling for a public inquiry into abuses they say they suffered.
Amnesty said there were more than a dozen mother and baby home-type institutions in the north, with the last one closing its doors as recently as the 1990s.
Some 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the homes, which were operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.
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