ICCL calls for action on disappeared children

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Dublin, 30 August 2019 On the International Day of the Disappeared, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has reiterated our call for the government to ratify the UN Convention on Enforced Disappearances (CED). It is essential that government appropriately …

You cannot silence the children from the graves

ICCL welcomes government decision to excavate grave at Tuam

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Dublin, 23 October 2018 The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has welcomed the announcement by the government to implement a multi-disciplinary framework, known as “humanitarian forensic action”, in order to identify the remains of those buried in an unmarked …

You cannot silence the children from the graves

ICCL: Tuam and adoption scandals may involve enforced disappearances

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30 August 2018 On UN International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has called on the State to ensure that family members of children who were forcibly disappeared, either through forced adoption …