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Agreement at last!

05 February 2010 at 12:00 by Brian Payne
The Democratic Unionist Party have voted to agree a deal with Sinn Fein over the devolution of policing and justice powers from Westminster to Northern Ireland. Another epic Northern Irish impasse has been surmounted and much of the media and the political establishments are positively euphoric!So why did it take so long?In a word, ‘unionist division', but that's two words ...

Human Rights in Haiti: Belfast seminar

29 January 2010 at 15:13 by Patrick Corrigan
Paige Jennings, who used to be an Amnesty researcher on Haiti and a former UN human rights observer there, recently blogged here about the situation post-earthquake. She'll be giving further reflections in person next week in a seminar to be delivered at Queen's University Belfast. For those able to get along, the talk, Human Rights in Haiti, is on Thursday ...

Northern Ireland offered pale shadow of Bill of Rights

29 January 2010 at 09:50 by Patrick Corrigan
Published today in the Belfast Telegraph: -------------------------------------------------------- Colin Harvey is dead right in his assertion that – whatever the outcome of the discussions over the devolution of policing and justice powers – the UK and Irish governments, along with all the local political parties, have a responsibility to deliver an effective Bill of Rig

Equality for all must now be set in Stormont stone

28 January 2010 at 11:17 by Patrick Corrigan
With permission, I'm reproducing the excellent opinion piece in today's Belfast Telegraph by Prof Colin Harvey, Amnesty member and Commissioner on the NI Human Rights Commission. This is a cut down and reworked version of a feature article in the current edition of AMNESTY magazine, which goes to over 250,000 AI members throughout the UK. You can join Amnesty here ...

Haiti: from injustice to catastrophe

22 January 2010 at 15:40 by Patrick Corrigan
Paige Wilhite Jennings, who used to be a researcher on Haiti for Amnesty and a former UN human rights observer there, contacted me this week. She is now settled in Northern Ireland, but the tragic events in Haiti moved her to write these words, which are also published today in a slightly different form in the Belfast Telegraph (but ...

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