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Oireachtas report says direct provision should be scrapped

May 9, 2015 No Comments

A firm call for ending direct provision, but is anyone going to action it? The Oireachtas committee’s report says a section of Irish society is being neglected and discriminated against. It wants its findings to be a wake-up call to the Government, the Oireachtas, the Department of Justice and the related agencies. It also wants […]

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Human Rights Parenting & Children Politics Society

Archdeacon: ‘No’ referendum posters are homophobic

May 7, 2015 No Comments

‘No’ posters in the same-sex marriage referendum campaign which say every child should have a mother and a father are homophobic, a senior Church of Ireland figure said at its General Synod in Armagh. […] Speaking as “a strong supporter of the Yes campaign” he admitted “it is not easy for me to be here […]

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Health Human Rights

Don’t get pregnant in Indiana

April 1, 2015April 2, 2015 No Comments

Purvi Patel gets 20 years for neglect and feticide. “The first woman to be sentenced for killing a foetus has been handed a 20-year prison term for feticide and neglect of a dependent, despite claiming she gave birth to a stillborn baby. Purvi Patel was bleeding heavily when she entered a hospital emergency room in […]

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Department of Cruel and Unusual Rules Human Rights Society

About Time

March 30, 2015 No Comments

Practice of jailing minors in adult prisons to end from this week: The practice of admitting minors to adult prisons is to cease from this week onwards. Until now, 17 year olds remanded in custody were typically placed in St Patrick’s Institution for young offenders, which forms part of the Mountjoy Prison complex. The Government […]

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Department of Cruel and Unusual Rules Human Rights

Too poor for love

December 13, 2014 No Comments

The BBC are have reported that a South African man is to be deported, as his wife isn’t earning enough. under rules introduced in 2012, British citizens who want to bring a foreign spouse to the UK must earn £18,600 a year and a further £3,800 – a total of £22,400 – if the couple […]

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Europe Human Rights Middle East

Lustig’s Letter: This immoral government

October 31, 2014 No Comments

Robert Lustig eviscerates the UK government over it’s stance on immigrants running the gauntlet of the Med to get to Europe, viz: The immigration minister, James Brokenshire, had the brass neck to stand in the House of Commons and argue, apparently in all seriousness, that the Italian rescue operation in the Mediterranean has had the […]

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Freedoms Human Rights Politics Society

Empires Love Their Dissidents Foreign

September 18, 2014 No Comments

Any regime, no matter how repressive, will gladly fête its enemy’s critics—while homegrown versions of those critics occupy concrete cells. Cooing over foreign dissidents allows establishment hacks to pose like sexy rebels—while simultaneously affirming that their own system is the best. The dissident fetishist takes a brave, principled person, and uses them like a codpiece […]

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Human Rights Politics

Common Ground

September 17, 2014 No Comments

I’m in the unusual position of agreeing with Ronan Mullen (“What is to be done about direct provision? – Irish Times”), someone I generally don’t find common ground with. Perhaps best known for his anti-abortion views, Mr Mullen has struck out from the pack with a proposal to radically overhaul direct provision. He is calling […]

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Department of Cruel and Unusual Rules Health Human Rights

Direct Provision – failing the vulnerable, yet again

June 12, 2014July 10, 2015 No Comments

Will we learn nothing, no matter how many reports are written? The Myth of the Cherished Child in Ireland: The last number of weeks have seen much hand wringing and pretense of ‘not knowing’ from government, politicians and the public at large to the treatment of mothers and children for many decades in Ireland. The […]

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Oireachtas report says direct provision should be scrapped

Archdeacon: ‘No’ referendum posters are homophobic

Don’t get pregnant in Indiana

About Time

Too poor for love

Lustig’s Letter: This immoral government

Empires Love Their Dissidents Foreign

Common Ground

Direct Provision – failing the vulnerable, yet again

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