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The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has told the United Nations that Ireland must urgently close the gap between its human rights commitments and the lived experience of people across the country. Addressing the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) pre-session in Geneva today, chief

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 UN judge has been convicted in the UK of forcing a woman to work as a slave. Judge Lydia Mugambe was initially appointed to the judicial roster of the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) in May 2023 — three months after her arrest in Oxford, where she was study

Human rights advocate Mary Lawlor has taken up her post as UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. Ms Lawlor has decades of experience in human rights, having helped to grow Irish-based NGOs as a previous director of Amnesty International in Ireland and a founder of Front L

Human rights advocate Mary Lawlor has been appointed as UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. Michel Forst, the current special rapporteur, is stepping down after six years in the role.