Lecturer & Director of Human Rights Law Clinic at @IrishCentreHR | Barrister @33BedfordRow | Member @maglaundries | Pro bono co-director of @clann_project |🎻
Aug 22, 2018 • 20 tweets • 9 min read
Thread: In 2014, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child examined the Holy See's human rights record. Regarding #Ireland it noted patterns of 'torture and other cruel or degrading treatment' and 'sale of children, trafficking & abduction' #papalvisittbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treat…
UNCRC noted Vatican's failure to investigate the arbitrary incarceration and 'slavery-like' conditions of girls and women in Magdalene Laundries