Emily Logan

Politicians have been warned against making remarks that discriminate against minorities by the State’s equality commission, which is calling for sanc(...)

Workplace discrimination against people with disabilities is “persistent, pernicious and prevalent in Ireland,” the head of the Irish Human Rights and(...)

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has told Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan that an independent process should be run to rea(...)

Irish adults spend more than 30 hours a week on unpaid care provision and housework, the third-highest level in Europe according to new research. Th(...)

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) says every local authority must state whether or not they are complying with human rights oblig(...)

The Government has “exacerbated” the housing and homelessness crises by its policy choices, the Human Rights Commissioner has warned. In a strongly w(...)

The State and its agencies “remain wedded to approaches that do not work” in direct provision for asylum seekers and in social housing, according to E(...)

A dental clinic has agreed to pay a woman €10,000 after a dentist refused to treat her after she disclosed that she had HIV. The dentist is also to p(...)

Racism fuelled by populist nationalism is not as significant a problem in Ireland as in certain other countries but “isolated incidents” should serve (...)

In March 2000, at the dawn of Ireland’s direct provision system, the Department of Justice issued a detailed statement on how it saw the future. In t(...)