Ireland - 2012
Cases - investigations before other EU and international bodies (European Committee for Social Rights - UN HRC - CAT etc.)
- Code:
- S9
- Key Area:
- Discrimination Statistics
- Strand(s):
- Statistics
| Short Answer |
Outside of the ECJ and the EUCR there are no sanctions against Ireland from EU of other international bodies. However a review of Ireland’s human rights record is underway in a bid to become a member of the UN Human Rights Council. |
| Qualitative Info |
“Ireland received one hundred and twenty seven recommendations from other UN member states on how to improve its human rights record last October. Justice Minister Alan Shatter accepted sixty-two of the recommendations on the spot and another forty-six are due to be accepted by the government” – thejournal.ie |
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| Exemplary cases | |
| Groups affected/interested | Migrants, Refugees, Roma & Travelers, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Linguistic minorities, Majority, Asylum seekers, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, Persons with disability, Africans/black people, National minorities |
| Type (R/D) | Extremism - organised Racist Violence, Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-semitism, Islamophobia, Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Anti-roma/zinghanophobia, Religious intolerance, Inter-ethnic, Intra-ethnic, Nationalism, Homophobia, On grounds of disability, On grounds of other belief, Anti-roma/ romaphobia, Xenophobia |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Policing - law enforcement, Employment - labour market, Housing, Health and social protection, Education, Culture, Media, Internet, Sport, Political discourse -parties - orgs, Political participation, Anti-discrimination, Anti-racism, Integration - social cohesion, Daily life, Religion |
| External Url | http://www.thejournal.ie/irelands-human-rights-record-under-spotlight-at-the-un-384666-Mar2012/ |
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