What does the programme for government mean for human rights?

ICCL2020, ACTIVISM, PROTEST & CIVIL SOCIETY, DIGITAL & DATA, EQUALITY & INCLUSION, Monitoring Human Rights, NEWS, POLICE & JUSTICE REFORM, PRESS RELEASE

15 June 2020 The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has welcomed significant advances for human rights in the (draft) programme for government published today. We especially welcome the commitments to end Direct Provision and bring in a law to …

Masked Gardai assist unidentified men in balaclavas to carry out an eviction

ICCL demands answers from Gardaí over disproportionate and unaccountable tactics used at North Frederick Street eviction

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

Dublin, 12 September 2018 The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) is today demanding answers from An Garda Síochána over the tactics used during an eviction of housing rights activists from a building at North Frederick Street in Dublin’s North …

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

ICCL2018, ACTIVISM, PROTEST & CIVIL SOCIETY, Civil Society Space, NEWS

Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy is the founder of Focus Ireland. She spoke at a press conference organised by ICCL on 6 July 2018.    This is a very important debate in Ireland today. I want to speak about the area known …