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The UN Human Rights Committee has made a number of significant recommendations on how Ireland should respond to human rights violations experienced by people who passed through #MotherAndBabyHomes and related institutions...
The UN Human Rights Committee has made a number of significant recommendations on how Ireland should respond to human rights violations experienced by people who passed through #MotherAndBabyHomes and related institutions...
According to the Committee, the Irish State should: (a) Ensure the full recognition of the violation of human rights of all victims in these institutions, and establish a transitional justice mechanism to fight impunity and guarantee the right to truth for all victims...
(b) Intensify efforts to increase complaint mechanisms & investigate all allegations of abuses thoroughly taking a survivor-centred approach, prosecute suspected perpetrators where appropriate and, if convicted, punish them w/ penalties commensurate with the gravity of offence...
(c) Guarantee full and effective remedy to *all* victims, removing barriers to access including overly burdensome standards of proof, short timeframes to apply for redress, ex-gratia nature of scheme, and the requirement to sign a waiver against further legal recourse.
In a very significant intervention, the UN Human Rights Committee has called on Ireland to extend its redress scheme to include all survivors - saying the exclusion of people who spent less than 6 months in an institution as a child and boarded-out children, should be scrapped.
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