Joint News Release Marriage Equality, Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN), Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) Dublin, 14th April 2013 In a joint statement this afternoon (14 April 2013), advocacy groups Marriage Equality, the Gay and Lesbi...

The ICCL is greatly honoured to be invited to share our knowledge and expertise with the members of the Convention on the Constitution this weekend during its deliberations this Saturday (13 April 2013) on opening marriage up to same-sex couples. This weekend's discussion at the Convention on the Constitution is a golden opportunity to address one of the last bastions of legal discrimination in Ireland: the exclusion of same sex couples from full civil marriage.

 You can follow both the Constitutional Convention webstream & twitter feed (#ccven) tomorrow centrally on our Hear Our Voices civil society initiative website: www.hearourvoices.ie.

Our submission to the Convention is available to read HERE.

  UNPRECEDENTED SUPPORT FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY AHEAD OF CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION THIS WEEKEND  Joint News Release  Marriage Equality, Gay and Lesbian Equality Network, Irish Council for Civil Liberties  Dublin, 12th April 2013 An unprecedented 10...

Press release, for immediate releaseDublin, 10 April 2013Ireland's independent human rights watchdog, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), has been invited to make a presentation to the Convention on the Constitution during the constitutiona...

Press release, 13 March 2013 Ireland’s human rights watchdog, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has today (13 March 2013) welcomed legislative proposals that it says could lead to a "partial thaw" in institutional discrimination against...

Press release, for immediate releaseDublin, Tuesday 15 January 2013The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) today (15 January 2013) has drawn a “bright line” between the protected right to freedom of religious expression, and the prohibition of...

 

The latest in the ICCL's Know Your Rights series will be launched tonight by the Chief Justice, the Hon. Mrs Justice Susan Denham in the Four Courts.

Know Your Rights: The Rights and Obligations of Civil Partners and other Same-Sex Couples is the latest in the ICCL’s Know Your Rights public information series, which is designed to inform people in clear and accessible language about their rights under key areas of the law. The pack was produced in partnership with the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) and was authored by Dr Fergus Ryan of Dublin Institute of Technology. It explains in plain English the rights and obligations created by the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010. The pack will be available for free download from this page, via GLEN's website (www.glen.ie) and via www.knowyourrights.ie from later this evening (20 December 2012).

Grace Callery (right) Sherrard Street Youthreach Centre, winner of the ICCL Youthreach Human Rights competition here with Sinead Kennedy of RTE Two Tube. Her winning entry was a branding campaign on equality called 'D1 Equality Street' here holding some of her design work. Photo by Derek Speirs

More details HERE.

 

Press release, for immediate release Tuesday 23 October 2012 Cases under the Equal Status Acts, which prohibit discrimination in the provision of goods and services, are entering “uncharted waters”, a high-profile equality conference in Dublin...

Equal Status Acts 2000-2011

Discrimination in the Provision of Goods and Services

by Judy Walsh.

Author Judy Walsh, Head of the Equality Studies Centre at the UCD School of Social Justice with Senator Katherine Zappone, who launched the book today, 23 October 2012, at the Law Society in Dublin

Now available to buy - download an order form HERE.

Launch press release available HERE.

More detail of the launch conference, 'The Future of Anti-Discrimination Law in Ireland', taking place today, 23 October 2012, available HERE.