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5 May 2021
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – Students at the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway have created a new guide to support those affected by Mother and Baby Homes and adoption.
The project by students in the Human Rights Law Clinic is part of a collaboration with non-profit organisation Article Eight Advocacy.
It aims to help people affected by the homes and adoption to make requests to the Department of Children for their records, or those of a relative.
The guide builds on a website and guide created last year for former residents of Ireland’s industrial schools and reformatories – which is available online at mydatarights.ie
The Garda Commissioner has said there are allegations within the report of the Mother and Baby Home Commission that suggest there was serious criminality engaged in.
Drew Harris told a meeting of the Policing Authority that allegations such as rape, incest and reports of children as young as 12 being pregnant are issues that could be pursued by gardaí that could have criminal justice outcomes.
Gardaí today appealed to anyone who was the victim of a criminal act in a mother-and-baby home to contact them.
However, they have warned that there will be limitations to the actions that can be taken in some cases due to the passage of time.
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Tsunami of hate and xenophobia targeting minorities must be tackled, says UN expert
GENEVA (15 March 2021) – Social media have become platforms for the spread of hate, prejudice and incitement to violence and atrocities against minorities, a UN expert told the Human Rights Council today, calling for an international treaty to address the growing scourge of hate speech against minorities.
“Today’s digital context means minorities are too often, with relative impunity, scapegoated, ‘otherised’, presented as disloyal, or as threats,” said Fernand de Varennes, the UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues.
“It is a warning that I never thought I would have to make, but the Holocaust did not start with the gas chambers, it started with hate speech against a minority. Dehumanizing language, even reducing minorities to pests, normalizes violence against them and makes their persecution and eventual elimination acceptable.
Tuesday, 16 March 2021, 8:04 am
GENEVA (15 March 2021) – Social media have become
platforms for the spread of hate, prejudice and incitement
to violence and atrocities against minorities, a UN expert
told the Human Rights Council today, calling for an
international treaty to address the growing scourge of hate
speech against minorities.
“Today’s digital
context means minorities are too often, with relative
impunity, scapegoated, ‘otherised’, presented as
disloyal, or as threats,” said Fernand de Varennes, the UN
Special Rapporteur on minority issues.
“It is a
warning that I never thought I would have to make, but the
Holocaust did not start with the gas chambers, it started