02 February 2021
We are currently seeking 4 volunteers to work remotely on two distinct projects – our Human Rights News Roundup and our Human Rights Impact Database. Human Rights News Roundup – 2 x Volunteers (Feb – July 2021) The Consortium are seeking two volunteers to work remotely on its Human Rights News Round Up project. The […]
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04 November 2020
The Human Rights Consortium has today launched a report entitled Economic and Social Rights in Northern Ireland: Models of Enforceability. The report, commissioned by the Consortium and authored by a team of academics lead by the Human Rights Centre at Queens University Belfast seeks to explore a spectrum of models for enforcement of Economic and […]
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13 July 2020
13 August 2020, 10 am Second in a series of webinars examining human rights issues that have been brought into sharp focus by the COVID-19 pandemic. About this Event Before COVID-19 hit domestic incidents in Northern Ireland were at a 15 year high. The situation has worsened since the enforcement of lockdown. Since 1 April […]
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24 February 2020
New Assembly committee expected to be set up on Monday Community organisations, charities, trade unions and academics have written to the First and deputy First Minister and other party leaders urging them to ensure that a new Committee established under the New Decade, New Approach (NDNA) agreement is the final stage of agreeing a Bill […]
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10 January 2020
Late into the evening of 9 January 2020 – three years after the Executive collapsed – the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and the Tánaiste presented their proposals for re-establishing our devolved institutions. The New Decade, New Approach document is 62 pages long and is currently being reviewed by the political parties. This is the Consortium’s initial […]
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08 June 2018
Today the Human Rights Consortium sent our submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in advance of the pre-sessional working group in July. During this meeting the committee will develop a list of issues for the United Kingdom to respond to in advance of the review of the UK by […]
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10 April 2018
(This personal reflection is a cross posted article from the Irish News and RightsNI) 20 years ago today I sat with friends in our student accommodation in Belfast and watched as politicians emerged to announce the new peace deal that was the Good Friday Agreement. We were all students at Queens, had grown up in the […]
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23 March 2018
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. As we reach this milestone, we believe that it is time to not only celebrate the achievement of the Agreement and the role that civic society played, but to reflect on its implementation and consider how its outstanding provisions regarding rights and equality can be […]
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05 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 plans to replace the Human Rights Act 1998, racism and hate crimes, corporal punishment and violence against women and girls. What is the UPR? […]
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