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The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) is struggling to satisfy its mandate with "diminishing financial resources", chief commissioner Les Allamby has warned. Writing in the foreword to the human rights body's latest annual report, Mr Allamby said the organisation needs "a decent finan

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has settled a case against the Department for Communities to back-pay state pension entitlements to a transgender woman. Frances Shields, who received her Gender Recognition Certificate in February 2015 and applied for her State pension in April 2

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) welcomed a Welsh Government minster to Belfast yesterday to highlight the case for banning child smacking. Julie Morgan, deputy minister for health and social services in Wales, updated stakeholders on the progress of the Children (Abolition of De

Further research on the impact of Brexit on the Good Friday Agreement's citizenship provisions could be jointly commissioned by the human rights watchdogs on both sides of the border. The joint committee of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) and Irish Human Rights and Equality Comm

The head of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has been reappointed for a further two-year term starting in September 2019. Les Allamby has been the human rights watchdog's chief commissioner since 2014, when he was appointed for an initial five-year term.

The PSNI will publish a formal public policy on its retention of biometric data after settling a case brought by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC). The NIHRC issued judicial review proceedings against the PSNI in December 2017 on behalf of an individual who wanted them to erase fi