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Alan Shatter defends Ireland human rights history to the UN review

UN members convene for council


Minister for Justice Alan Shatter
Minister for Justice Alan Shatter
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The Irish government has been urged to introduce several human rights treaties to protect the most venerable in society, such as those with disabilities, migrants and prisoners.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter is before the UN Rights Council in Geneva this week, where all 192 members scrutinize each other.

The committee questioned Irish women’s reproductive rights and demanded concrete legislation on the issue of abortion. 

The minister vowed to deal with the abortion issue in a “adequate and comprehensive” way and to “meet our obligations under the convention of human rights”.

Members states have expressed concerns about women’s rights, racism, asylum seeks rights and the fake marriages. They also queried the delay in implementing a number of treaties.
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The rights of prisoners was also questioned, with overcrowding in prisons and violence among inmates being flagged. However Minister Shatter told members that Ireland does not have a problem with excessive violence in jails.

"There isn't a question of excessive violence within the Irish prison system," he told the committee.

"Prisoners occasionally have difficulties with each other - I don't think our prison system is any different in that context to other prisons within the European Union generally."

Meanwhile the Irish Human Rights Council has welcomed the UN’s scrutiny of the State’s record in human rights.


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shatter the shaper of an ireland of the future as readily underway over ireland's South media. Soddom and Gomorrah.
Most venerable...I don't think so?
"They also queried the delay in implementing a number of treaties." OOOpps An end run by the EU thru the UN to pressure the government and assure that Ireland remains "a good little member."
The joke is the United Nations.
This is a joke, right? Ireland is one of the safest places on the planet. Literally, you're ten times safer any place in Ireland, including Belfast, than the average American big city.
Of course they would not ask about child abuse or the rights of the medical cannabis user. Yor are right a bunch of self serving buffons trying to say the right words to justify their huge salaries. They are worthless, get to work and stop the BS you human rights delegates. Ask the hard questions and help protect people. I consider them just talking heads.
Self serving retards questioning a self serving corrupt politician. Its no wonder nobody gets protection by law. Heaven will the only place to get help.
 




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