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Small quick thread #EndDirectProvision the outpouring of support for #UnsealTheArchives was urgent and completely necessary and the campaign is not over until people can have easy and dignified access to their records and our state fully faces up to the violence it committed. 
Ireland is still institutionalising people. Today. We will have to account also for the damage done to people within the Direct Provision System in Ireland. But first we have to end it. There are currently 7,151 people in DP.
There are 201 people in Direct Provision now who have spent between 6 and 14 years of their precious only lives there. There are children who have spent up to 9 years living in DP.
Colm Keena's piece in the Irish Times will hopefully be read alongside my previous Op Eds that explain key issues arising with #UnsealTheArchives
(here thejournal.ie/readme/maeve-o… and here irishexaminer.com/opinion/commen…)
and I provide a response to Colm's points in the thread below:
(here thejournal.ie/readme/maeve-o… and here irishexaminer.com/opinion/commen…)
and I provide a response to Colm's points in the thread below:
First, the article states that the Commission's purpose was 'to bring story of what happened in institutions into the open'. This is pretty much the problem, that the Commission has functioned to provide a story to the general public and not to give access to those affected by
the gross and systematic rights violations at stake to their own information and that concerning their deceased or disappeared family members.
The Commission has not allowed those affected to see or comment on any of the records - whether personal files or administrative files-
The Commission has not allowed those affected to see or comment on any of the records - whether personal files or administrative files-
#Stand4Truth #UnsealTheArchives #MotherAndBabyHomes
We have been asked by a survivor who wishes to maintain her confidentiality to:
'Please convey to the Senator @barrymward, publicly, that nobody is "leading anybody up any garden path", that we are highly intelligent persons,
We have been asked by a survivor who wishes to maintain her confidentiality to:
'Please convey to the Senator @barrymward, publicly, that nobody is "leading anybody up any garden path", that we are highly intelligent persons,
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some of us academics, who have taught for many years at university level, and we are more than capable of understanding our rights, and the abuse of our rights, and we also recognise when Irish patronising men dare to insult us along with the female lawyers who
some of us academics, who have taught for many years at university level, and we are more than capable of understanding our rights, and the abuse of our rights, and we also recognise when Irish patronising men dare to insult us along with the female lawyers who
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represent us, given that a criminal, patriarchal Ireland sought to destroy our lives by committing horrendous crimes against us.
The Senator owes to us women survivors, mothers who were constrained by the Irish State to give away our children, an apology,
represent us, given that a criminal, patriarchal Ireland sought to destroy our lives by committing horrendous crimes against us.
The Senator owes to us women survivors, mothers who were constrained by the Irish State to give away our children, an apology,
