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The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has written to the foreign affairs and trade minister, Helen McEntee, urging her to use Ireland's presidency of the Council of the European Union to lead EU Member States in stepping up efforts to protect the International Criminal Court (ICC) from t

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has written to Meta to ask whether protections planned for US children in the wake of a landmark settlement with US states will be extended to children in Ireland and across Europe.

FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres) and ICCL (the Irish Council for Civil Liberties) have raised serious concerns about human rights and equality in Ireland in advance of the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review (‘UPR’) of the State’s human rights record.

New research published today reveals that members of An Garda Síochána routinely question Irish journalists in an effort to identify their confidential sources.

Ireland’s implementation of the digital wallet pilot raises significant legal, privacy, security, governance and transparency concerns, particularly given the State’s reported trialling of the wallet to enforce social media age verification, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) a

Ahead of this week’s annual Oireachtas vote to continue the use of emergency powers and the non-jury Special Criminal Court, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has launched a new short animated film, developed in collaboration with animation students in the Institute of Art, Design

Enforce, the tech accountability unit of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), has appointed Louise Hooper as AI expert. Ms Hooper was a barrister at London’s Garden Court Chambers for over two decades.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) in partnership with the School of Law in Trinity College Dublin will today mark the organisation’s 50th anniversary with a conference considering the current risks to fundamental freedoms and democracy. With democracy under increasing threat at home

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has called for the decriminalisation of possession of drugs for personal use, arguing that Ireland’s current approach harms vulnerable people and fails to reduce drug use. In a new policy paper, the ICCL said recommendations made by the Citizens’ Ass

Expanded Garda surveillance powers risk undermining established data protection safeguards unless necessity, proportionality and oversight remain central to their use, writes the ICCL. CCTV systems can have legitimate purposes, such as securing premises. But, unless CCTV is used proportionately, it

The use of the Defence Forces to disperse fuel protests raises "serious concerns for the protection of peaceful protest in Ireland", the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has said. In a statement issued late yesterday afternoon, the NGO said the right to peaceful protest "is an important corn

Ireland's performance in protecting the rule of law is "stagnating", with persistent failures to implement key EU recommendations and concerning legislative proposals raising alarm in civil society, according to new report. The report, published today by Brussels-based human rights watchdog Libertie

Legal observers have identified "emerging issues" in the policing of protest in Ireland in a first-of-its kind report. The Irish Network of Legal Observers (INLO), co-convened by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway, today pub

UN human rights experts have expressed concern over An Garda Síochána's acquisition and use of less lethal weapons for crowd control and protest management. Gina Romero, the special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, and Alice Jill Edwards, the

A new analysis has set out what powers exist in Ireland to investigate illegal online content such as the sexually-explicit images generated by Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) have put together the 16-page document, which exa