14 January 2019 Email your local candidates in support of ICCL’s 8 asks Update: See if your candidates have endorsed human rights: The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) today launched its Election 2020 Manifesto. The human rights organisation has …
8 January 2020 The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has reiterated its call to the Minister for Health, Simon Harris, to immediately establish safe zones around all medical centres that can provide abortion services so that women and pregnant …
Dublin, 29 December 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE/ The director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Liam Herrick, has said that a note written by a Department of Justice official in 1980 reflects the culture of suspicion and lack of …
9 December 2019 The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has said it extremely concerned about growing and unnecessary use of Facial Recognition Technology in Irish society. The statement comes on the back of news that the New Children’s Hospital …
6 December 2019 It’s now a year since Simon Harris promised he would bring forward legislation to guarantee safe, private and dignified access to abortion services. One year later, we’re still waiting. Will you email your TD, asking them to …
Dublin, 28 November 2019 On 2 and 3 December, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination will examine Ireland. Ireland has signed up to the UN Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and so it must periodically …
Dublin, 22 October The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) will appear before the Oireachtas Justice Committee on Wednesday 23 October at 9am. The rights group will demand that the government act to ensure that what happened to Dara Quigley, …
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Online harassment and harmful communications are significant social problems mirroring structural exclusions offline. This is a gendered problem: 23% of women across the EU have reported experiencing online abuse in their lifetime. At ICCL we recently carried out independent qualitative …
ICCL carried out independent qualitative research into online harassment in Ireland and found that most victims of online harassment are women.
