21 September 2016
The Human Rights Consortium has launched its Shadow Report in advance of the Third Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Kingdom in May 2017. The Universal Periodic Review is a mechanism of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations, where each member state is examined by other member states for […]
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16 August 2016
The 2016 Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival is now open for event proposals from interested organisations. The festival which will take place between 4th – 10th December is an annual unique collaboration by a range of civil society organisations under the common unifying theme of protecting and promoting human rights. For the past four years […]
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16 August 2016
The majority of people in Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU, despite the fact that the overall UK vote resulted in a leave outcome. There is a lot of confusion about what impact the leave vote will have on human rights protections in Northern Ireland. To clarify, the Human Rights Act – […]
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01 August 2016
The Human Rights Consortium has submitted its consultation response to the Draft Programme for Government (PfG) Framework 2016 – 2021. The Consortium has welcomed a number of new developments in the PfG, including a move to an outcomes based model and the inclusion of some equality based outcomes and indicators. In contrast to the previous Programme […]
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28 June 2016
The UK government was reviewed by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva on the 15 and 16 June 2016 in relation to their compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), to which the UK is a voluntary signatory. Yesterday the Committee raised a number of […]
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17 June 2016
The UK government was reviewed by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva on the 15 and 16 June 2016 for their compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), to which the UK is a voluntary signatory. While representatives from the UK government as well as […]
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11 June 2016
In a response to todays Queen’s Speech the Human Rights Consortium has said that it is extremely concerned that proposals for a British Bill of Rights are still a serious consideration for the UK Government despite the clear indications that such a proposal would mean removing existing protections in the Human Rights Act (HRA) from […]
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10 June 2016
The Human Rights Consortium has criticised the UK and Northern Ireland governments’ failure to accurately reflect the status of human rights protection in Northern Ireland to a UN Committee in advance of an important international review next week. The UK government is due to be reviewed by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural […]
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09 June 2016
The Consortiums work has a number of themes and focusses which help us work towards the delivery of our broader strategic aims. A number of those current areas of work can be seen in the following infographic.
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08 June 2016
Human rights issues have largely been ignored in the debates around the EU referendum. With just two weeks to go until we get to decide to stay or go, we need to focus on human rights . The core human rights instrument in the UK is the Human Rights Act. Its origins in the European […]
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