Press Coverage
December 11, 1998 Irish Times article about the funding and powers of the new Human Rights Comission as envisaged in the Belfast Agreement.
December 3, 1998 Irish Times article about a tribunal launching a Women's Human Rights Campaign initiated by Women's Aid to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the UNDeclaration of Human Rights in 1948.
December 3, 1998 Irish Times article about the funding and powers of the new Human Rights Comission as envisaged in the Belfast Agreement.
December 3, 1998 Irish Times article about reiterated the concerns of Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, about the powers and composition of the new Human Rights Commission, to be set up in January under the Belfast Agreement.
October 26, 1998 Irish Times article about the advice of Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on the establishment of a human rights commission as envisaged in the Belfast Agreement.
October 6, 1998 Irish Times article about the establishment of a human rights commission as envisaged in the Belfast Agreement.
March 7, 1998 Irish Times article about the Women’s Human Rights Campaign and the Department of Foreign Affairs’ NGO Human Rights Forum at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham on March 7, 1998.
March 7, 1998 Press release to coincide with the campaign's involvement in the Women and Human Rights Panel the Department of Foreign Affairs NGO Human Rights Forum at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham.
June 12, 1997 Irish Times article describing the inauguration of the joint Department of Foreign Affairs/ Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Human Rights Committee. The committee is intended to provide a framework for a regular exchange of views between the Department and the NGO community on human rights aspects of foreign policy.
April 5, 1997 Lorna Siggins editorial in the Irish Times about the plenary session of the ICCL Women's Rights as Human Rights Conference (Dublin, March, 1997).
March 21, 1997 Irish Times interviews with Charlotte Bunch of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (US) and Florence Butegwa, founder of Women in Law and Development in Africa, in anticipation of the ICCL Women’s Rights as Human Rights Conference.
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