Today, the Coalition Against Hate Crime is holding a press conference responding to new @gardainfo stats showing a 12% increase in hate crime and hate-related incidents in 2023.

Hate crimes hurt us all. We urgently need legislation to address these harms. Ireland is an outlier in Europe with our lack of hate crime legislation.

Today’s stats from @gardainfo should serve as a wake-up call for public representatives & political parties.

Passing hate crime legislation is an essential step to address the roots of hate.

🧵 The Mother and Baby Home survivors suffered some of the worst human rights violations in Ireland in the last century, and we’re letting survivors down yet again. The proposed redress scheme is a major disappointment. This redress scheme is rooted in a deeply flawed report that failed to recognise the human rights abuses that jump off the pages of testimony given by survivors.

ICCL's @liamherrick earlier spoke to Morning Ireland about cutting both the pandemic payment and social welfare payments to recipients going on holiday to countries not on the green list. rte.ie/radio/radiopla… This creates a situation where advice for one section of population has become force of law for the section dependent on social welfare. This is discriminatory and raises serious questions about equality before the law.

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We recently carried out research into gendered online harassment, and submitted a paper to the Oireachtas Justice Committee calling for legal reform so that victims can take cases under legislation which is adequate to deal with this issue.

iccl.ie/human-rights/i… We found that most victims of online harassment are women. The perpetrators were most commonly found to be partners or ex-partners attempting to exert control. Examples of harassment included the use of spyware - intended for parents monitoring children - against women.

Mincéir is our true name in our own language i.e. Cant/Gammon, Traveller is a term put onto us because of our nomadic identity. Throughout history, varied terminology was used to describe us such as ‘Tinker/Tynkr’, ‘Itinerant’, and ‘Gypsy’. The first mention of us is in the 5th century where we are called 'whitesmiths' because of our association with tin-smithing. However, our history is largely unrecorded, partly due to our oral tradition and state historical neglect.

Gareth Noble beginning proceedings tonight at #RightsBasedPolicing: #Visions4Change - despite dreaded technical difficulties! David Joyce speaking on bias and profiling against Travellers from Gardaí - sometimes based on nothing more than “looking like” a Traveller