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Lecturer & Director of Human Rights Law Clinic at @IrishCentreHR | Barrister @33BedfordRow | Member @maglaundries | Pro bono co-director of @clann_project |🎻
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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' #papalvisit tbinternet.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