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Ireland had signed up to UN backed inspection process but never established it

As is known, the current provisions of the EU’s Generalised System of preferences (EU-GSP) scheme are being revised at present in anticipation of the new scheme to be put in place as of January 1, 2024.

The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) will make its first visit to Bulgaria from 24 to 30 October to assess the treatment of

International human rights law meanders between the vague and the hazy when it comes to its stance on the age of criminal responsibility and what, if any, punishments should be imposed on child soldiers guilty of war crimes.

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has ruled in Geneva that indigenous people are affected by Paraguayan companies spreading pesticides in areas neighbouring homes, schools, roads and rivers thus affecting the water supply to indigenous peoples, causing diarrhoea, vomiting, respiratory problems and headaches, were entitled to reparations.

In the wake of the horrific reports of sexual abuse of residents with intellectual disabilities in a Donegal HSE-run centre, immediate action must be taken to ratify the Optional Protocol of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), a Fine Gael Senator has said.

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon concluded its seventieth session after adopting concluding observations and

Botswana and the European Union (EU) appear to have been at each other's throats behind the scenes since last year, with the EU saying it held several meetings with Botswana to convince her to address human rights issues. 

The Committee on Human Rights today completed its review of the seventh periodic report of Germany on measures taken to implement the International

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