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The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has provided legal assistance to a disabled woman in a discrimination claim under the Equal Status Acts. The woman alleged that a State body had failed to provide her with transport that would have enabled her to avail of its services on an equal footin

A complaint of indirect age discrimination against a State body has been settled after the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission supported the complainant to bring a case to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC). The alleged discrimination related to specific eligibility criteria that was re

Equality legislation should be updated to protect people on the grounds of socio-economic status and criminal conviction, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has said. The national equality body today published a second set of recommendations to government as part of ongoing engagement wi

A deaf woman who was told she would have to pay for her own interpreter to take part in a Griffith College course designed to prepare students for the King's Inns entrance exams has been awarded €3,000 by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC). Sofiya Kalinova was represented by the Irish Hum

Six people, including lawyers Noeline Blackwell and Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, have been proposed for appointment to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. The six new members proposed by the government are:

The civil legal aid scheme should be extended to cover housing issues amid a "protracted housing, homelessness and accommodation crisis", the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has recommended. The rights body has published its submission to the independent review of the civil legal aid sche

Barrister Deirdre Malone has been appointed as director of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. Ms Malone is a former global director within the legal policy team at Twitter. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, she was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2006 and practised for sev

Ireland should enshrine economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights in its Constitution, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has said in a new report. In a policy statement published yesterday, the rights body recommends that a joint Oireachtas committee on a constitutional amendment for E

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has called for legislation on multi-agency domestic homicide reviews to be progressed urgently following an alarming rise in the number of women killed in Ireland in 2022. The death toll of women killed in violent circumstances in the State was 12 in 20

Seven local authorities have been asked to prepare and implement an equality and action plan on the provision of Traveller accommodation and services. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission is making the request of local authorities in South Dublin, Limerick City and County, Tipperary, Doneg

A failure to identify any child victims of trafficking in the past two years shows "significant gaps" in Ireland's current identification processes, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has said. The rights watchdog today gave evidence to the Oireachtas joint committee on justice, which is

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has been given permission by the Supreme Court to appear as amicus curiae in a case that concerns the consideration of fundamental rights in the context of deportation orders. The case (GO v Minister for Justice) explores whether and to what extent, whe

The Irish Human Rights and Equality commission has argued before the High Court that a State requirement for survivors of historic sexual abuses in schools to have taken legal proceedings against the State before 1 July 2021 – proceedings that, would be doomed to fail – “is in

Government proposals to reform the inspection of prisons will not allow Ireland to ratify the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture (OPCAT), the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has said. The rights body will become the co-ordinating national preventative mechanism (NPM) u

A judge in the Circuit Court was incorrect in law in directing a jury to return a verdict of not guilty on a count of endangerment in circumstances where the garda investigation did not include an interview with the accused, the Supreme Court has ruled. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission