Our end-of year event, The Future of Human Rights: Global Techniques Securing Local Impact, took place on Friday, 16 December 2011 in the Westbury Hotel, Grafton Street, Dublin

To view the full programme for the event please click HERE 

You can view video footage of the conference below

ICCL Conference Part One Anthony Romero Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union

ICCL Conference_Part One_Anthony Romero_Executive Director_ACLU from Stephen O'Hare on Vimeo.

ICCL Conference - Hagai El-Ad of ACRI and Deirdre Duffy of ICCL

ICCL Conference_Part Two_Hagai El-Ad_ACRI_Deirdre Duffy_ICCL from Stephen O'Hare on Vimeo.

 ICCL Conference Hagai El-Ad of ACRI and Deirdre Duffy of ICCL (Part 2)

ICCL Conference_Part Two(b)_Hagai El-Ad_ACRI_Deirdre Duffy_ICCL from Stephen O'Hare on Vimeo.

ICCL Conference Keynote - Hossam Bahgat of Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)

ICCL Conference_Part 3_Hossam Bahgat_Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights from Stephen O'Hare on Vimeo.

The ICCL is delighted to mark Human Right Week by open applications for the 2012 ICCL Human Rights Film Awards, marking the competition's fourth year as Ireland's only human rights short film competition.

Over the past three years, the competition has produced shortlisted films of outstanding quality which cast light on a range of human rights issues in new and creative ways.

The 2012 competition will also continue to widen its reach to younger people in second-level education through the Human Rights in Under a Minute Challenge, which will launch in January 2012, and through the Human Rights Films in Schools Project).

The competition deadline is 16 April 2012, and full details of how to apply are available on the competition website - www.humanrightsfilmawards.org.

Rights News 19 Autumn 2011

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has made a submission to the Working Group on the Establishment of the Human Rights and Equality Commission.

This brief submission highlights some of the shortcomings of the current structures and provides the ICCL’s answers to the three key questions on which the Working Group has sought responses:

What should the new body do?

What features and functions will it need in order to carry out its work?

How should it be structured and what working methods should it use to achieve the above?

The submission is available to download HERE.

This brief submission highlights some of the shortcomings of the current structures and provides the ICCL’s answers to the three key questions on which the Working Group has sought responses.

This submission contains the ICCL's comments on Ireland’s draft Third Report under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.