18 March 2021 The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has written to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney, calling on him to consider rights before supporting the plan to bring in vaccine certificates for travel across the EU. …
Government must protect peaceful and pandemic-safe protesters
16 March 2021 Protests planned for St Patrick’s Day have highlighted yet again the need for guidelines for people who want to protest in a peaceful and pandemic-safe manner, says the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL). The anti-lockdown protests …
Guidelines for protest urgently needed
4 March 2021 Following the eruption of violence at a far-right protest in Dublin the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has said that guidelines for protesting safely during lockdown are now urgently needed. In a letter to the Minister …
ICCL writes to Health Minister about human rights report
3 March 2021 The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) strongly welcomes the recent report from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. The IHREC report echoes much of what ICCL has been saying for the past year – namely …
ICCL sends briefing to Oireachtas: Mandatory Quarantine and Human Rights Concerns
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) is appalled at the planned steamrolling of the Health (Amendment) Bill 2021, (the Bill) through both houses of the Oireachtas today and tomorrow. This is an affront to our democratic system of law …
ICCL writes to Health Minister re Mandatory Quarantine
On 19 January 2021, following a reignition of the public debate on mandatory quarantine, ICCL wrote to Health Minister Stephen Donnelly to outline for him the obligations on government to ensure any quarantine would respect rights. We copied the health …
Rights in a Pandemic
ICCL is marking Human Rights Day on 10 December by hosting an online seminar. We’ve invited experts-in-their-fields to look at the most pressing human rights issues emerging from the pandemic. Register now UN Special Rapporteur Siobhán Mullally will deliver a …
ICCL statement on proposals to introduce new fines for drinking in public
17 November 2020 There has been an impassioned response to video footage of people drinking in public as the country lives under level 5 restrictions. That response includes a proposal to introduce an €80 fine for offenders. ICCL is opposed …
ICCL opposes attempt to steamroll emergency legislation through Dáil
20 October 2020 The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has written to all TDs to urge them to oppose the extension of the Emergency Health Legislation without substantial review and debate on Thursday of this week. The legislation, fast …
Two years of DPC inaction on the ongoing RTB data breach: Irish people with AIDS profiled, and Polish elections influenced.
Irish Data Protection Commission inaction on the RTB privacy crisis means Irish people with AIDS were profiled, Polish elections were influenced, and the biggest data breach in history continues.