Press Release: Human rights groups, victims and families call on government to investigate historic human rights violations

Human rights groups, victims and families call on government to investigate historic human rights violations

Molly Kavanagh2025, Human Rights, NEWS, PRESS RELEASE

A new cross-border report published today by ICCL and Northern Ireland’s Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) calls on the Irish government to establish a Historical Investigations Unit (HIU) to investigate unresolved deaths and incidents of torture and ill-treatment, including (but not limited to) cases related to the Troubles.

ICCL publishes follow-up report to UN Committee Against Torture

ICCL2018, EQUALITY & INCLUSION, Human Rights, Monitoring Human Rights, NEWS, POLICE & JUSTICE REFORM, SUBMISSION

ICCL Follow-up report to UNCAT This report by the ICCL was submitted to the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) on 26 November 2018 and forms part of the process of ‘follow-up’ to the CAT’s second set of Concluding Observations on Ireland, …

You cannot silence the children from the graves

ICCL welcomes government decision to excavate grave at Tuam

ICCL2018, Human Rights, NEWS, POLICE & JUSTICE REFORM, PRESS RELEASE

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

ICCL2018, DIGITAL & DATA, Human Rights, NEWS, POLICE & JUSTICE REFORM, PRESS RELEASE

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 …

ICCL calls on State to provide information and records to all affected by forced and illegal adoption

ICCL2018, Human Rights, NEWS, POLICE & JUSTICE REFORM, PRESS RELEASE

Dublin, 30 May 2018 The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) today welcomes the decision of Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Dr Katherine Zappone, to establish a process of investigation into illegal adoptions where adoptive parents were registered as …