Recent years have seen a rapid increase of legal and policy developments under international law to advance the rights of women in conflict-affected settings. These developments are accompanied, however, by acute concerns about their efficacy and enforcement. One significant development towards improving overall implementation, enforcement and state compliance with women’s rights in conflict is the…Continue reading CEDAW and the Security Council: Enhancing Women’s Rights in Conflict Guest Post by Dr Catherine O’Rourke and Dr Aisling Swaine

There is a renewed commitment to the RightsNI Blog, CAJ and Amnesty set the blog up to be a source of information sharing and awareness on all the diverse topics within human rights, equality and non discrimination. The areas covered in the blog range from LGBT rights, gender equality and disability rights to name a…Continue reading RightsNI gets a makeover

We are delighted to share this guest post by Dr Catherine O’Rourke and Elise Ketelaars. They can be reached at cf.orourke@ulster.ac.uk. This post was originally posted on intlawgrlls. We are pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of the Ulster University Transitional Justice Institute Research Paper Series on the Social Sciences Research Network. This…Continue reading Launching the Autumn/Winter Issue of the Transitional Justice Institute Research Paper Series on SSRN

We are delighted to welcome this guest post by Brian Gormally. Brian Gormally is Director of CAJ and part of the BrexitLawNI project looking at the human rights and constitutional implications of Brexit.   The Agreement creates equality of citizenship The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement (BGFA), in addition to being approved by referenda, North and South, was…Continue reading Equality of Citizenship after Brexit

This piece is the work of the QUB Human Rights Student Working Group, consisting of Leo McSweeney, Leah Rea, Mansoreh Abolhassani and Laura Garland. They can be reached at lmcsweeney01@qub.ac.uk. They  thank Prof Colin Harvey for his advice and support. Recent years in the UK have resulted in enhanced political instability, with many elections and the EU…Continue reading In the wake of recent elections, an NI Bill of Rights is needed now more than ever.

We are delighted to welcome this guest post from Prof Colin Harvey, QUB School of Law. This is the text of Colin Harvey’s written opening statement to the Seanad Special Select Committee on the UK’s Withdrawal from the European Union, 27 April 2017   Introduction Thank you Chair and Committee members for the invitation to attend…Continue reading Brexit, Northern Ireland and Human Rights

We are pleased to welcome this guest post from Helen Flynn, Campaigns and Membership Officer with the Human Rights Consortium. This is a crosspost from http://www.humanrightsconsortium.org/upr-examination-uk-4-may-2017/  On Thursday 4 May the UK had to defend its human rights record before other Member States of the UN. The UK was grilled on a diverse range of issues including…Continue reading The UPR Examination of the UK – 4 May 2017

We are pleased to welcome this guest post from  Catherine O’Rourke and Elise Ketelaars (Ulster University). They can be reached at cf.orourke@ulster.ac.uk. We are pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of the Transitional Justice Institute Research Paper Series on the Social Sciences Research Network. This exciting new issue engages both with highly-topical contemporary…Continue reading Launching the April Issue of the Transitional Justice Institute Research Paper Series on the Social Sciences Research Network

We are delighted to welcome this guest post from the QUB Human Rights Student Working Group, consisting of Leo McSweeney, Leah Rea, Mansoreh Abolhassani and Laura Garland. They can be reached at lmcsweeney01@qub.ac.uk. The 1998 Good Friday Agreement has become the foundation for the peace paradigm and the basis for the new legal regime of Northern…Continue reading QUB student working group calls for renewed consideration of NI Bill of Rights

We are delighted to welcome this guest post. Dr Catherine O’Rourke is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights and International Law and the Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University. Dr O’Rourke is independent academic expert for the Oversight Group of the Irish Government’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security and is also a member of…Continue reading Leveraging the Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Transitional Justice towards a Gender-inclusive Process to Deal with the Past

Who has the legal power to start the process to take the UK out of the EU  (or ‘trigger Article 50’ of the Treaty of Lisbon) – the Government or Parliament? That was the main question decided in the Brexit judgment of the UK Supreme Court. The Government had argued that it could do so…Continue reading The Supreme Court’s Brexit Judgment

We are pleased to share news of this event at QUB. The School of Law at Queen University Belfast, together with the Centre for Transnational and European Studies, is hosting an open, round-table discussion forum about the “Brexit” (Miller/McCord/Agnew) decisions of the UK Supreme Court, to be released on Tuesday, 24th January, concerning the constitutional…Continue reading The Practical Implications of the Brexit Decision for Northern Ireland