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August 17, 2018 / 2018, fundraising, jobs, News, Staff, we're hiring

ICCL seeks Funding Development Officer

Applications are invited for the post of Funding Development Officer with ICCL to lead our income generation and sustainability work ...
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August 15, 2018 / 2018, An Garda Siochana, equality, Events, Garda Reform, Gareth Noble, Justice, Justice, News, opinion, Opinion, Policing, policing, Victims' Rights

Gareth Noble on children’s interactions with An Garda Síochána

Gareth Noble heads up the Children's Law Department with KOD Lyons. He spoke at ICCL's event Rights-based policing: Visions from ...
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August 8, 2018 / 2018, amnesty, civic space, Civil Society Space, Civil Society Space, Electoral Act, freedom of association, freedom of expression, Liam Herrick, News, opinion, Opinion, sipo, sipoc, Standards in Public Office Commission

Outcome of Amnesty case highlights flaws in Electoral Act

This op-ed by Liam Herrick appeared in the Irish Times on 31 July 2018 For community and voluntary organisations across ...
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August 1, 2018 / 2018, amnesty, civic space, Civil Society Space, Civil Society Space, Electoral Act, freedom of association, freedom of expression, housing crisis, News, right to housing, sipo, sipoc, Standards in Public Office Commission

Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy on the importance of charities’ ability to advocate for change

Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy is the founder of Focus Ireland. She spoke at a press conference organised by ICCL on 6 ...
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July 31, 2018 / 2018, 8th Amendment, amnesty, civic space, Civil Society Space, Civil Society Space, Electoral Act, Equality, freedom of association, freedom of expression, News, Press Release, reproductive rights, sipoc, Standards in Public Office Commission, women's rights

ICCL welcomes Amnesty result; calls on Government to amend unclear law

Dublin, 31 July 2018 The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) today welcomes the outcome of the legal challenge taken ...
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July 9, 2018 / 2018, Events, events, Garda Reform, Human Rights, ICCL members, Justice, Justice, Members, members' events, News

Rights-based Policing: Visions for change from the community

Where: Radisson Blu Hotel, Dublin 8 When: 18 July, 18:30 (following ICCL AGM) Registration: https://gardavisionsforchange.eventbrite.ie With two months to go ...
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July 6, 2018 / 2018, civic space, Civil Society Space, Civil Society Space, Electoral Act, News, sipo

April Duff of Education Equality on Sipo threatening them with prosecution and no longer accepting donations over €100

April Duff (centre) pictured at the ICCL/The Wheel/Front Line Defenders/Transparency International press conference on 6 July 2018 where she spoke about ...
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July 6, 2018 / 2018, civic space, Civil Society Space, Civil Society Space, Electoral Act, freedom of association, freedom of expression, Human Rights, News, Press Release, sipo, Standards in Public Office Commission

Speakers at today's press conference (L-R) Sr. Stanislaus, Focus Ireland, Liam Herrick, Executive Director - Irish Council for Civil Liberties, (centre), April Duff, Legal Officer, Education Equality, Ivan Cooper, Director of Advocacy with The Wheel and Steve Lawson, Humanist Association of Ireland. Picture Conor McCabe Photography.

Civil society organisations under threat at home whilst Foreign Affairs champions civil society abroad

Dublin, 6 July 2018 The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), along with a coalition of other leading civil society ...
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July 6, 2018 / 2018, civic space, Civil Society Space, Civil Society Space, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Electoral Act, EU FRA, freedom of association, freedom of expression, Liam Herrick, News, Press Release, sipo, sipoc, Standards in Public Office Commission

NGOs call for greater protection of domestic civil society as Foreign Affairs launches resolution at UN

Dublin, 6 July 2018 Five civil society organisations will today hold a press conference to welcome the approval by the ...
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July 4, 2018 / 2018, equality, Events, Hate Crime, IHREC, LGBTI rights, Liam Herrick, Life Cycle of a Hate Crime, News, Press Release, racism, Securing Equality, Victims' Rights

map of europe showing hate crime figures

Ireland has among highest rates of hate crime against people of African background and transgender people in the EU, but no laws to address it

Dublin, 4 July 2018 In a report launched today by Emily Logan, Chief Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and ...
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