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"Our prisons are not working" was the title of an article written for Reality magazine in 2001. And, it seems, little has changed since then. Fr Tony O'Riordan SJ is a visiting chaplain to a number of prisons in Dublin and is also Director of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice. Here he presents the case from the point of view of a prisoner's mother.
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Third Annual Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) Lecture |
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This is the text of the Third Annual Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) Lecture delivered at the National Gallery, Dublin, by President Mary McAleese on Tuesday, 25th November 2008.
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) includes procedures that intentionally alter or injure female genital organs for non-medical reasons. An estimated 100 to 140 million girls and women worldwide are currently living with the consequences of FGM. In Africa, about three million girls are at risk for FGM annually. The procedure has no health benefits for girls and women. Procedures can cause severe bleeding and problems urinating, and later, potential childbirth complications and newborn deaths. It is mostly carried out on young girls sometime between infancy and age 15 years. FGM is internationally recognized as a violation of the human rights of girls and women.
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World Day for Overcoming Extreme Poverty |
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"At the beginning of the New Millenium, the poverty of billions of men and women is the one issue that most challenges our human and Christian consciences." Pope John Paul II. October 17 is World Day for Overcoming Extreme Poverty
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EU Charter of Fundamental Human Rights |
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The Charter is the result of work on human rights begun in 1950 by the European Convention on Human Rights and proclaimed as a charter in December 2007 for the Lisbon Treaty. It is organised into six titles: dignity, freedoms, equality, solidarity, citizens' rights and justice. Art 51 seems to limit its scope, firstly, by invoking subsidiarity, and secondly, by stating that the Charter "does not establish any new power or task for the Community or the Union, or modify powers and tasks defined by the Treaties". On the other hand, if the Lisbon Treaty is approved, could judges of the European Court of Justice make new interpretations of certain rights that would then be binding?
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