Irish News Opinion Piece - Human Rights Must Become
By Clara Reilly, Chairperson of the United Campaign Against Plastic Bullets.
Biopic: Clara Reilly is also a founding member of Relatives for Justice and the Association for Legal Justice (ALJ). The body of this article was first printed in the Irish News on 1st June.
The Plastic Bullet issue must concern every person with an interest in the preservation of human rights.
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McGurks Bar Commemoration May 04
Mark Thompson of Relatives for Justice speaking at today’s commemoration in West Belfast - May 13th 04.
The hidden hand.
On December 4th 1971 McGurks Bar was bombed killing 15 people and injuring many more. Initially republicans were blamed – British ‘official’ sources at the time cited that the bombing was the result of an 'own goal'. The misinformation was now also accompanying the...read more |
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The Remembering Quilt Launch
The Remembering Quilt was launched on Monday 6th August in Belfast. Feile an Phobail provided the platform as hundreds of relatives joined together with friends to celebrate the launch.
The quilt currently consists of 250 squares representing 265 victims of the conflict in Ireland,1,100 individuals participated in this project.
Many more families have since come forward wishing to...read more |
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Legacy Event 2001
Legacy - 1981- twenty years on.
1981 was a year to remember in every way. No more so than for the ordinary people whose lives were irreversibly affected by the events of that year. A year that saw 10 men die in Long Kesh and 37 civilians killed on the streets. Thousands more were injured many still bearing the physical and mental scars. To mark 1981 Relatives For Justice and Feile Discussion...read more |
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Policing and Human Rights
The decision by the SDLP, the Irish government and the hierarchy of the Catholic Church to endorse the British government's policing arrangements has raised more doubts about the possibility of ever securing the type of substantive change envisaged and required for protecting human rights.
How are people concerned with the promotion of human rights now going to seek an end to the use of...read more |
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Springhill Massacre July 1972
The Springhill Shootings of July 9th 1972, the Inquest System in the North of Ireland into the killings, and what is now required post Article 2 ruling of May 01- A case example submission to the Review of Coroner’s Inquest System highlighting the systemic nature of how inquests, particularly into controversial killings, in the North of Ireland are conducted
On behalf of the families, the...read more |
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