A new cross-border report published today by ICCL and Northern Ireland’s Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) calls on the Irish government to establish a Historical Investigations Unit (HIU) to investigate unresolved deaths and incidents of torture and ill-treatment, including (but not limited to) cases related to the Troubles.
ICCL director wrote to Senators outlining our concerns about the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 before it was due for debate in the Seanad.
ICCL Follow-up report to UNCAT This report by the ICCL was submitted to the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) on 26 November 2018 and forms part of the process of ‘follow-up’ to the CAT’s second set of Concluding Observations on Ireland, …
Dublin, 23 October 2018 The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has welcomed the announcement by the government to implement a multi-disciplinary framework, known as “humanitarian forensic action”, in order to identify the remains of those buried in an unmarked …
Dublin, 3 September 2018. The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) have today called on Dublin City Councillors to support the motion to stop the sale of the former Magdalene Laundry site …
30 August 2018 On UN International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has called on the State to ensure that family members of children who were forcibly disappeared, either through forced adoption …
Dublin, 30 May 2018 The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) today welcomes the decision of Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Dr Katherine Zappone, to establish a process of investigation into illegal adoptions where adoptive parents were registered as …
