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Press Release: Abortion access in Ireland still fails to meet human rights standards, hears UN body.

November 9, 2021 - Featured, Free Safe Legal, Policy & Advocacy, Press Release - Tagged: , , - no comments

The Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC), Abortion Support Network (ASN), and Termination for Medical Reasons (TFMR) urge the United Nations to hold Ireland to account at the Universal Periodic Review for…

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Press release: UN Human Rights Committee says Ireland’s prohibition on abortion violates human rights

June 10, 2016 - Media, Policy & Advocacy, Press Release, Repeal the 8th - Tagged: , , , , , , , - no comments

In a landmark judgment today in the case of Amanda Jane Mellet v Ireland, the United Nations Human Rights Committee found that Ireland’s prohibition on abortion, in itself, violates human…

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