On 10th December 2021, Latvia acceded to the OPCAT and the treaty will come into force in the country on the 9th of January 2022. Latvia is the 91st state to join the OPCAT. Latvia had begun to prepare for the establishment of their National Preventative Mechanism in...
The recommendations made by recommending States as part of Ireland’s third Universal Period Review were adopted on the afternoon of Friday 12th November, along with the publication of the Draft Report. A recommendation made by 21 States was that Ireland ratify the...
States submitted questions to Ireland on its performance across a number of human rights treaties as part of Ireland’s third Universal Period Review. The Irish State delegation outlined to its UN peers what actions they have taken to improve the human rights situation...
At the pre-legislative scrutiny stage of the Policing, Security, and Community Safety Bill 2021, which purports to improve Garda oversight, the ICCL outlined some concerns and recommendations to further enhance the Bill. One of their recommendations was that Ireland...
IPRT was one of the civil society organisations chosen to make a statement at the pre-session meeting of Ireland’s UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on 7th October 2021. There, selected Irish human rights organisations petitioned recommending States to make...
The Mid-Year Progress Report on Justice Plan 2021 was published in August. The plan details the progress made so far to achieve 5 goals identified in the Justice Action Plan 2021. An action to attain approval “to ratify and implement the Optional Protocol to the...
