Supreme Court says Edwin Poots must accept NI courts’ decisions on adoption
This is a guest post by Catherine Couvert, who works as a Publications Officer for a Belfast NGO but is writing here in a personal capacity. On 22 October 2013, the UK Supreme court laid to rest the...
View ArticleEvent: Maternal Mental Health and Poverty: The Impact on Children’s Education...
The UNESCO Centre at the University of Ulster and Aware Defeat Depression request the pleasure of your company at a seminar; ‘Maternal Mental Health and Poverty: The Impact on Children’s Education’ On...
View ArticleRegistered Intermediaries in Northern Ireland
We are delighted to welcome this guest post from John Taggart. John is currently completing his barrister pupillage in The Bar Library in Belfast. Introduction Since the promulgation of The Youth...
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#BringBackOurGirls & defend the right to education
On April 14, over 200 girls, most of them aged between 16 and 18, were abducted as they slept, from their school in Chibok, north-eastern Nigeria. More schoolgirls have been kidnapped since. All of...
View ArticleThe background to CAJs legal challenge to the Anti-Poverty Strategy
17 October marks UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. This post sets out the background to the decision in the high court last month to grant CAJ leave to judicially review the Northern...
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Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival Programme Launched!
Today saw the launch of the programme for the 2014 Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival (NIHRF). The festival, which will take place from 8-13 December, consists of a series of events on a range of...
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“Just another day in paradise”: the Calais situation
Screenshot from BBC Shorts: “DESPERATE TO GET THROUGH”, BBCshorts.tumblr.com, accessed 3rd August 2015. David Cameron proclaimed this week: “everything that can be done will be done to make sure our...
View Article‘The Impact of the Human Rights Act in Northern Ireland’, Conference Overview
The threat to the Human Rights Act rumbles on, albeit, in muted tones compared to the fanfare of the Conservatives 2014 proposals and now juxtaposed by Michael Gove, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of...
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Manifesto Watch: 2016 NI Assembly Election
We are pleased to welcome this guest post from Jason McKeown, Communications Assistant with the Human Rights Consortium. With the 2016 Assembly Elections almost upon us, the Human Rights...
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#CAREDAY18 – TIME TO GET SOCIAL, GET VOCAL AND GET TOGETHER
VOYPIC (Voice of Young People in Care) invited everyone to be part of Care Day on Friday 16 February. The feedback is simple – “Best ever Care Day” and it really was an A to Z of activity from early...
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The Good Friday Agreement at 20
To Register for the event and details of the upcoming seminars please go to the eventbrite page HERE This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. As we reach this milestone, we...
View ArticleThe Return of the Bill of Rights?
The Northern Ireland Bill of Rights appears to have made a comeback. A process that involved much collective effort seemed to have ended in the vague language of paragraph 69 of the Stormont House...
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