Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald
Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald will appear before the Human Rights Council, as part of the Universal Periodic Review, at 1.30pm at the UN in Geneva today, to explain what the previous Irish government ignored achieved during its tenure.
Ms Fitzgerald is expected to field questions on a variety of subjects.
These include housing and homelessness; reproductive rights; the historical abuse of women and children; the rights of persons with a disability; immigration and asylum; access to adequate healthcare and education; LGBT rights; prisons and detention; the rights of children and older people; the rights of Travellers, Roma and other minority groups in Ireland.
Ms Fitzgerald’s appearance will be live streamed here from 1.30pm.
Government facing rights leadership test at UN today (Irish Council for Civil Liberties)
How long has she got?
Its like sending out a toddler to do a child’s job. Don’t forget once she has a miscarriage or something too so be nice to her.
We need proper hate crime laws here.
Some newspapers here would probably be in breach of them with the kind of racist taunting they use in their reporting.
as opposed to your posts which are of course missives of peace and tolerance
Do you work for the Independent Group? You tend to defend the police and Fine Gael quite a lot. You get very touch about Gemma O’Doherty too.
So what you really want to do is silence the freedom of the press if they have ideas you don’t agree with.
“We are letting the open market solve the many social problems we have” – probable thought process there..
It’s a right proper catch-all statement :)
Francis is late to the meeting , because of Government business, WOW impressive Francis , hrs into the new Government and already working hard.
A knuckle sandwich when it comes to victims rights.