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Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
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The EU is drawing up a plan to overhaul its 1951 Refugee Convention that prevents countries from rejecting asylum seekers at their borders in a belated effort to address Europe's exploding migrant crisis.
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The prosecution of a man for burning the Qur'an shows how Islamic blasphemy codes are becoming embedded in criminal law. Coming up with a legal definition of 'Islamophobia' will accelerate this process, says Sam Bidwell.
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President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order today withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council and removing all US funding for the Gaza agency UNRWA.
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All the babies that Lucy Letby was convicted of killing actually died of natural causes, often due to poor medical care, and were not murdered, a panel of 14 medical experts has concluded.
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dublin / crime and justice / event notice Sunday May 20, 2007 17:45 by F   text 4 comments (last - friday june 08, 2007 15:21)
Terence will not be forgotten

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national / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Sunday May 20, 2007 11:26 by C Murray   text 14 comments (last - sunday october 07, 2007 18:27)
To Precede this 'Opinon and Analysis' on the Constitutional crisis of May and June
2006 and right up to this election, I want to state that the statute which came about
as a result of emergency legislation equally mitigates against the 12-17 year old
pre-consent boy; but the sub-title of the piece is focussed on the creation of an
under-class. The collapse of the 1935 legislation which came about as a direct
result of the Laffoy Judgement on the 'A' case led to the introduction of the Criminal Law
(Sexual Offences) Bill 2006, (amended 2007), this included the insertion of the
unconstitutional section 5 into the statute, which still stands , without repeal and
without re-visit. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday May 20, 2007 10:10 by Sheikh Prof. Shaheed Satardien   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 31, 2007 02:13)
galway / arts and media / event notice Saturday May 19, 2007 14:59 by Kevin Higgins
North Beach Poetry Nights BK's Winebar, Thursday May 24th at 9pm

Special Guest: BRUCE BARNES Visiting UK Poet from Bradford

+ Micéal Kearney (Cúirt Grand Slam Winner '07)

+ Gary King + Katie Lawless (Joint Second Place at Cúirt Grand Slam 07)

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday May 19, 2007 14:25 by Sal Fiore   text 20 comments (last - friday june 08, 2007 10:03)
Increasing spying over academics sparks protest and anger across academia.

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday May 18, 2007 21:10 by R
Review of first volume of Roddy Doyle trilogy. Political Fiction dealing with Dublin in the early part of the Twentieth century and depicting in the Doyle style the events leading to the Easter Rising and the subsequent 'Tan' war. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / event notice Friday May 18, 2007 20:30 by Anti-Fascist
The IBMT, with which the locally based International Brigades Commemoration Committee is linked, is holding its AGM in Belfast on Sat. 13th October. read full story / add a comment
antrim / racism & migration related issues / event notice Friday May 18, 2007 20:29 by fli
11th Hour protest to prevent deportation of mother and baby to cameroon. Tues 22nd May, 1pm, City hall. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Friday May 18, 2007 16:19 by gan
The uninformed are rejoicing over the forced resignation of Paul (bouquet of flowers) Wolfowitz from the World (US) Bank; the resignation of Tony (45 minutes) Blair as British prime minister; the foregone demise of George (WMD, mission accomplished) Bush and the likely elimination of John (aluminium tubing) Howard as Australian prime minister. However, rejoicing may be premature as the gangrenous infection in the body of humanity has not been completely excised. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Friday May 18, 2007 14:54 by Edward Horgan   text 17 comments (last - friday june 01, 2007 09:50)
Please come to Shannon tomorrow 19 May 2007, or any other day of your choice, to protest against the human rights abuses being facilitated on a daily basis at Shannon airport.

In January 2006, I formally requested the Irish Human Rights Commission to investigate the use of Shannon airport for the purposes of facilitating the US Rendition for Torture programme and the transit of US troops to unlawful wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
On 17 May 2007, 17 months later, I received a reply from the IHRC saying that they had decided not to investigate any of the issues I had raised with then.
The IHRC has just decided that it "was not EXPEDIENT to investigate torture and for the abuse of Shannon airport to facilitate the US war against the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan.

I call on all the Human Rights Commissioners to resign from the Commission because of your failure to investigate the abuses of Shannon airport and Irish territory for the purposes of committing and facilitating gross human rights abuses. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday May 18, 2007 11:01 by Anne Mc Shane   text 1 comment (last - friday june 22, 2007 16:01)
Anne McShane gives a report here on how meetings in Cork, Dublin and Belfast resulted in the succesful launch of Hands Off the People of Iran, in Ireland. Full article and links to more material at the url below.

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Genuine solidarity

The launch of the Hands off the People of Iran campaign in Ireland last week was an important success. It showed the potential of Hopi to draw others in and give real solidarity to left and progressive forces in Iran. Yassamine Mather put forward forceful arguments against many misconceptions. She explained the political realities in Iran and the struggles that are ongoing against the theocratic regime. She argued against the idea that the development of nuclear power by Iran was the impetus behind any US intervention. The true reason is that the Iranian state is far too influential in Iraq for the liking of the Bush administration.

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday May 18, 2007 10:07 by John O'Shea   text 1 comment (last - friday may 18, 2007 10:30)
Last Friday Zimbabwe was elected to chair the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. This week the presidency of the Council of Europe will pass to Serbia. And later this month, Belarus is expected to join the United Nations Human Rights Council. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Thursday May 17, 2007 14:36 by Bob and Eve   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 17, 2007 17:11)
Account of the Shell AGM in the Hague by Shell to Sea shareholders. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday May 16, 2007 21:15 by The Diogenes Club   text 5 comments (last - wednesday june 20, 2007 14:09)
Yet more bad news if you're a serviceman or servicewoman with the US armed forces. The Pentagon have drawn up a list of sites which their employees will no longer be allowed access from company computers. Though facing off advocates of freedom on the web, the Pentagon were quick to clarify the ban will only apply to US base computers. A regular soldier or officer in Iraq or Afghanistan will still be free to log on to the "banned list" from any internet café they can find in Baghdad or Kabul that are still occupier friendly. The news is sure to overshadow the other little titbits of news from the hive this wednesday evening ; Sarkozy's wife didn't vote in the second round and wants a divorce & Prince Harry of the half-blood Windsor is not afterall to be allowed join his regiment of squaddies in Iraq or active service. Too many threats - too much danger. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday May 16, 2007 18:05 by Dorothy Gale   text 1 comment (last - friday may 18, 2007 13:49)
Human Rights Watch provides an update on the Iranian Juntas war on women. This puts things in the context of human, civil and gender rights.

Iran’s arbitrary arrests of thousands of men and women in recent weeks under the banner of “countering immoral behavior” threaten basic rights to privacy, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called for the immediate release of all those detained as part of this campaign, including more than 80 people seized in a raid on a private gathering in the city of Esfahan on May 10, 2007.

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national / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday May 16, 2007 15:10 by observer   text 71 comments (last - monday may 28, 2007 18:33)
This is taken from a local radio station in Sligo called ocean fm read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday May 16, 2007 14:57 by San Jose Peace Community   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 16, 2007 23:09)
Francisco Puerta, a former coordinator of Humanitarian Zone Miramar ,and member of San Jose de Apartado Peace Community is shot dead by paramilitary soldiers in the bus station in Apartado.

The Peace Community once again ask the International Community to support them in their struggle to live in peace, in their quest to continue denouncing human rights abuses committed by the the paramilitary right-wing groups in Colombia.

Please contact Alan Cummins at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Americas Section, [email protected] and ask him to immediately contact the Colombian authorities in relation to the murder of Francisco and in relation to the security of the lives of all the members of the San Jose Peace Community.

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dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Wednesday May 16, 2007 12:40 by siobhan   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 24, 2007 10:27)
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday May 16, 2007 11:21 by Admin
Christy Moore & Friends present a Concert in the National Concert Hall on 23 June next in aid of Console: Bereaved By Suicide Foundation.

It promises to be a memorable evening, at a great venue and in a very worthy cause.

For tickets, call National Concert Hall ticket office on 01-417000 or online on www.nch.ie. read full story / add a comment
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