IRELAND
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A United Nations committee has criticised the Government for failing to implement its recommendations to investigate allegations of ill treatment of women in Magdalene Laundries.
It has also called for urgent measures to improve the staffing of the Republic’s prisons and to convene an independent review of the entire prison health care system.
The report underlines many achievements in the six years since the UN Committee Against Torture’s previous review.
These include the creation of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the provision of community service as an alternative to imprisonment.
It also notes the 2013 McAleese Report on the State’s involvement with the Magdalene Laundries and the ex gratia scheme to help women who worked in the Laundries.
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