A guest post by Catherine Couvert. Yesterday(15 January 2013) in Assembly question time, the Minister for Health confirmed that he is challenging Mr Justice Treacy’s decision last October that the rule banning civil partners and unmarried couples in Northern Ireland from adopting was illegal (judicial review [2012] NIQB 77). Mr Agnew [Stephen Agnew MLA, Green […]
Category: Child Rights
VIDEO: Securing justice for child abuse victims – Chris Moore
Chris Moore is a campaigning, investigative journalist whose name has become synonymous with the search for truth about organised child abuse in Northern Ireland. In this talk at the RightsNI Live! event from December 11th 2012, he gives a glimpse into some of his investigations, from his work on the Kincora children’s home scandal in the 1980s, serial-abuser […]
More Than a Job – Supporting Young People who Need Education, Employment and Training
We welcome today’s guest post by Sharon Whittaker, Communications Worker at Include Youth. Include Youth is an independent non-governmental organisation that actively promotes the rights, best interests of and best practice with disadvantaged and vulnerable children and young people. Dressed in his whites, rubber gloves and what looked like some kind of blue shower cap; […]
Today’s landmark judgement on adoption in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland blanket ban on adoption by civil partners and on unmarried partners adopting as a couple is unjustifiable. A guest post by Catherine Couvert. Mr Justice Treacy in the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland today gave a landmark judgement on a judicial review regarding the blanket ban on adoption by civil partners […]
WLTM* ‘Scumbag’ Olympian
We welcome today’s guest post by Sharon Whittaker, Communications Worker at Include Youth. Include Youth is an independent non-governmental organisation that actively promotes the rights, best interests of and best practice with disadvantaged and vulnerable children and young people. (*would like to meet) Who told boxers Paddy Barnes, Katie Taylor and Michael Conlan, or rowers […]
I fought the law and the law won: the Police Ombudsman and child rights
We welcome today’s guest post by Sara Boyce, Information and Research Coordinator at Include Youth. Include Youth is an independent non-governmental organisation that actively promotes the rights, best interests of and best practice with disadvantaged and vulnerable children and young people. I Fought the Law and the Law Won Few people starting a new job […]
Policing, Privacy and Photographs
The GB Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has just published a press release on the case of R (RMC and another) v Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. The EHRC had intervened in this court case to argue that the police could not indefinitely keep photographs of persons who had not been charged with or convicted […]
Adoption, gay and unmarried couples and the Good Friday Agreement
Guest poster, Catherine Couvert, offers this update on developments subsequent to her initial article at Rights NI. Thursday 22 and Friday 23 March were interesting days in Belfast High Court as the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and DHSSPS counsels made their final submissions in the judicial review on adoption by unmarried couples and civil […]
A Child Rights compliant Youth Justice System
We welcome today’s guest post by Sharon Whittaker, Communications Worker at Include Youth. Include Youth is an independent organisation which actively promotes the rights, best interests of and best practice with young people at risk. A Child Rights compliant Youth Justice System Young people involved with Include Youth’s Young Voices project met with Thomas Hammarberg, […]
Happy Birthday Robert Mugabe: life expectancy in Zimbabwe
We are delighted to welcome this guest post from Adam Kula, journalist and volunteer at the Amnesty International office in Belfast. Robert Mugabe is not just one of the world’s oldest-surviving tyrants. He is perhaps one of his country’s oldest-surviving men – full-stop. In, Zimbabwe, where the World Health Organisation records an average life expectancy […]
Adoption, unmarried parents, civil partners and a welcome judicial review
I am very pleased to post this guest article by Catherine Couvert. A feminist and an LGBT and human rights activist, Catherine works in a Belfast NGO as a Publications Officer, and writes here in a personal capacity. Adoption, unmarried parents, civil partners and a welcome judicial review The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has […]
Considering Human Rights in addressing Historic Institutional Child Abuse in Northern Ireland
We welcome this contribution from solicitor Khara Glackin of the South Tyrone Empowerment Project (STEP). Khara has provided extensive research and advocacy in the area of historical abuse and human rights. Considering Human Rights in addressing Historic Institutional Child Abuse in Northern Ireland Historic institutional child abuse is certainly a very prevalent and deeply […]