Human Rights Commission
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China sanctions British MPs for ‘gross interference’ over Xinjiang
- Asia-Pacific
- March 26, 2021, 07:57
China has imposed sanctions against UK politicians, lawyers and academics over criticism of its mass internment campaign in Xinjiang, the latest salvo(...)
Irish feminists must avoid British trap of transphobia
- Opinion
- March 12, 2021, 00:52
A recently formed feminist group called the Irish Women’s Lobby (IWL) had their inaugural conference on March 8th, International Women’s Day. Before t(...)
Jennifer O’Connell: We did not need Pontins to teach us about anti-Traveller discrimination
- Opinion
- March 6, 2021, 01:18
Pontins, the British purveyor of chalet holidays since 1946, has been operating a blacklist of “undesirable guests”. O’Connell made the list of 40 sus(...)
Northern Ireland's health system is buckling
- Opinion
- March 4, 2021, 01:00
Behind the triumph of its vaccine rollout, Northern Ireland’s health system is buckling. A fifth of the population is waiting for a first hospital app(...)
British holiday park identified ‘people with Irish accents’ as ‘undesirable guests’
- Travel
- March 2, 2021, 12:45
“Undesirable guests” was the headline on a memo listing Irish surnames and published on the intranet of the British holiday parks company, Pontins. Th(...)
Quarantine the Australian way: Tight logistics and high cost
- Irish News
- January 29, 2021, 16:59
Louise Curtis, a psychiatry registrar from Mallow, Co Cork, today works in a Melbourne hotel offering help to people held under Australia’s tough 14-d(...)
Labour reinstates Corbyn after suspension over anti-Semitism report
- UK
- November 17, 2020, 20:46
British Labour leader Keir Starmer has said the readmission of his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn to the party just weeks after he was suspended marked “an(...)
Labour party suspends Jeremy Corbyn over anti-Semitism report
- UK
- October 29, 2020, 13:16
Keir Starmer, the Labour leader , has suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn after a damning official report into anti-Semitism in the UK’s main oppo(...)
Report on Séamus Woulfe to go to Chief Justice this week
- Crime & Law
- September 17, 2020, 00:52
A report into the attendance of Supreme Court Judge Séamus Woulfe at the Oireachtas Golf Society dinner is expected to be provided to the Chief Justic(...)
Dismay as Downing Street adviser is chosen to set up UK race inequality commission
- UK
- June 16, 2020, 00:00
The new British government commission on racial inequalities is being set up by a Downing Street adviser who has cast doubt on the existence of instit(...)



