Today saw the launch of the programme for the 2014 Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival (NIHRF). The festival, which will take place from 8-13 December, consists of a series of events on a range of human rights issues from home and abroad in celebration of International Human Rights Day on 10 December . All events […]
Category: Gender & Sex
The background to CAJs legal challenge to the Anti-Poverty Strategy
17 October marks UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. This post sets out the background to the decision in the high court last month to grant CAJ leave to judicially review the Northern Ireland Executive over its alleged failure to adopt an anti poverty strategy based on objective need. Following the 2006 St […]
Asking a Different Set of Questions? Dealing with the Conflict Legacy in Northern Ireland and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 Part Two
Dr Catherine O’Rourke is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights and International Law and Gender Research Coordinator at the University of Ulster Transitional Justice Institute, where she also directs the LLM Gender, Conflict and Human Rights. Her new book, Gender Politics in Transitional Justice (Routledge, 2013), examines feminist engagement with, and gendered outcomes of, transitional justice […]
Asking a Different Set of Questions? Dealing with the Conflict Legacy in Northern Ireland and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 Part One
We are delighted to welcome this guest post by Dr Catherine O’Rourke. Dr Catherine O’Rourke is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights and International Law and Gender Research Coordinator at the University of Ulster Transitional Justice Institute, where she also directs the LLM Gender, Conflict and Human Rights. Her new book, Gender Politics in Transitional Justice […]
One Billion Rising
We are delighted to host this blog from Órla McKay, an Assumption Grammar School – Ballynahinch pupil spending a week on work experience with Amnesty International. Here she highlights the great speech given by Kellie Turtle of the Belfast Feminist Network at the RightsNI Live event in December and previews the One Billion Rising campaign […]
Legislating for Article 40.3.3: Blog Carnival Conclusion
Authors: Dr Catherine O’Sullivan, Faculty of Law University College Cork, Jennifer Schweppe, School of Law, University of Limerick and Dr Eimear Spain, School of Law, University of Limerick We hope that you have enjoyed the various posts in this special blog carnival on “Legislating for Article 40.3.3.” The authors of these posts, who are all […]
Legislating for Article 40.3.3: Murray on ‘Hysterical Women’
Author: Dr Claire Murray is a lecturer in law in the Faculty of Law, University College Cork. One of the most striking aspects of the recent debate on legislating for abortion is the persistent underlying narrative of the unreliable and hysterical woman. This narrative is particularly to the fore in the context of discussions on […]
Legislating for Article 40.3.3: O’Dowd on A Matter of Substantial Doubt
Author: John O’Dowd, School of Law, University College Dublin Finlay CJ formulated the crux of the Supreme Court’s decision in Attorney General v X as follows: ‘[I]f it is established as a matter of probability that there is a real and substantial risk to the life, as distinct from the health, of the mother, which […]
Legislating for Article 40.3.3: Schweppe and Spain on Article 40.3.3 and the capacity to survive outside the womb
Authors: Jennifer Schweppe and Dr Eimear Spain, Lecturers in Law, University of Limerick In recent months the issue of the availability of terminations for women carrying foetuses which are “incompatible with life” or suffering from “lethal foetal abnormalities” has dominated the media. However, the issue has received little academic attention. From a legal perspective the […]
Legislating for Article 40.3.3: Mills and Glackin on the Doctrine of Double Effect
Authors: Dr Simon Mills, Barrister and Dr Shane Glackin, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Exeter Responding to the Government’s decision to legislate for the X case, the four Irish Catholic Archbishops stated: If what is being proposed were to become law, the careful balance between the equal right to life of a mother and her […]
Legislating for Article 40.3.3: Brady on Legislating for Suicide
Author: Paul Brady, Barrister Why should we legislate for abortion on grounds of risk of death by suicide? In reviewing the various answers given to this question in recent months, I have been struck by the tendency among commentators to frame the justification of legislation in terms of various generic procedural claims. There is little […]
Legislating for Article 40.3.3: Thornton on The Right to Travel, Reproductive Rights and Asylum Seekers
Author: Dr Liam Thornton, School of Law, University College Dublin I. The Right to Travel The thirteenth amendment to the constitution recognised that the right to life of the unborn, did not affect the right of individuals to travel, hence women and girls in Ireland may travel to access abortion services in other states. When […]