United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Archives

October 24, 2016 No Comments admin

Schools Admission Bill will institutionalise religious discrimination

The proposed new Education (Admissions) to Schools Bill 2016 will not remove religious discrimination from our education system and protect human rights. Despite the requirement that the Admissions policies of schools will be obliged to include a statement that they shall not discriminate on religion, publicly funded National schools can ...

October 13, 2016 No Comments admin

Irish children denied right to sexual and reproductive health education

In Ireland Children and Adolescents are denied their right to sexual and reproductive health education. You can do something about this by supporting the Recommendation of the Irish Human Rights & Equality Commission on the Education (Admissions) to Schools Bill. This Bill will be coming up in the Oireachtas again ...

September 30, 2016 No Comments admin

Atheist Ireland rejects Holy See claims about Irish schools at OSCE

The Irish State has ceded control of most of our publicly funded schools to a Church that swaps at will between being a religion and being a foreign state. This foreign State claims internationally they are not responsible for the running of Catholic schools in Ireland, while at the same time ...

January 13, 2016 No Comments Michael Nugent

Atheist Ireland in Geneva this week at UN hearing on rights of the child

This Thursday, in Geneva, Atheist Ireland will be advocating for children in Irish schools, as the UN questions Ireland about its human rights record under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This is our sixth year raising religious discrimination in Ireland with the UN, Council of Europe and OSCE. ...

July 28, 2015 No Comments admin

Human Rights violations in the Irish Education System

The Irish education system discriminates against minorities and undermines human rights. The 1995 Constitutional review Group said Article 44.2.4 of the Irish Constitution, which sanctions state funding of denominational schools, was also meant to protect the rights of minorities. The United Nations and Council of Europe have made eight Recommendations ...

September 3, 2013 2 Comments Jane Donnelly

Ruairi Quinn refuses to implement UN Recommendations on the rights of the child.

Yesterday the Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn published a draft Admission to Schools bill to regulate the admission of children to primary and post primary schools. While the proposed measures in the bill are to be welcomed the Minister has done nothing about removing religious discrimination in access to education. ...

August 29, 2013 No Comments Jane Donnelly

Atheist Ireland asks UN Human Rights Committee to raise secular issues with Ireland

The UN Human Rights Committee is preparing to adopt a list of issues about Ireland at its session from 14 October to 1 November. Atheist Ireland has sent the following submission. Recommendations / questions for the UN Human Rights Committee regarding Ireland Introduction Article 2 – Freedom from Discrimination, Article ...

July 9, 2013 2 Comments Jane Donnelly

The Irish Education System: A failure to protect human rights.

Freedom of religion in the Irish primary school system: a failure to protect human rights? The above link is to a paper called ; Freedom of religion in the Irish primary school system: A failure to protect human rights? The research is by Dr. Alison Mawhinney, Lecturer in Law, School ...

December 3, 2010 No Comments Michael Nugent

IHRC Discussion Paper Part 7 – Conventions on the Rights of the Child and Racial Discrimination

This is an extract from a discussion paper written by the Irish Human Rights Commission about religious education and human rights. Atheist Ireland is preparing a response to this discussion paper, and we welcome your feedback on it. Convention on the Rights of the Child 40. Article 14 provides: “1. ...