UN to examine Ireland's human rights record

Monday 14 July 2014 16.34

The United Nations is to examine Ireland's human rights record before the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva this afternoon.

Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald along with a delegation of Irish Civil Society Groups are giving direct testimony to the committee. 

It will be Ireland's fourth hearing before the Human Rights Committee.

Ms Fitzgerald is set to be questioned on such issues as Traveller ethnicity, the conditions in Irish prisons, Magdalene Laundries, symphysiotomy, and women's reproductive rights.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties, in partnership with colleagues, has already submitted a detailed 'Shadow Report' of human rights issues in Ireland to the committee in advance of the hearings.

The committee meeting can be viewed live on the treaty body's website.

Meanwhile, the Adoption Rights Alliance has said it was disappointed and surprised not to have been included in a Government delegation to the UN's Human Rights Committee.

Speaking on RTÉ's News at One, Alliance co-founder Susan Lohan said the Government failed to include any of its concerns in the State report.

Ms Lohan said the UN had written to the group to ask why the State had not mentioned any of its concerns.

"We made a submission directly to the UN and they were just as astonished as we were, they actually wrote back to us and said why do you think the Irish state has not mentioned any of your concerns?

"We took part in the NGO process in the Department of Foreign Affairs, we thought we engaged perfectly well on that and we're really... I suppose we were disappointed but we shouldn't really have been shocked," Ms Lohan added. 

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