# childrens-rights - Wednesday 13 September, 2017
The former president says the church is embroiled in a dispute with the governing body of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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# childrens-rights - Sunday 26 February, 2017
The Irish Care Leavers’ Network is dedicated to supporting people coming out of State care.
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# childrens-rights - Wednesday 28 September, 2016
The office dealt with 1,639 complaints in 2015.
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# childrens-rights - Tuesday 24 May, 2016
A case of severe child abuse that recently passed through the courts showed some of the provisions in place to help protect minors.
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# childrens-rights - Thursday 4 February, 2016
A number of human and children’s rights groups have called for action in addressing a number of issues.
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# childrens-rights - Monday 23 February, 2015
“In its last year in office, how will the Government respond to these children?”
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# childrens-rights - Friday 7 November, 2014
It is a fact of life that parents will enter into arrangements of whereby a third party bears their child – so we need legislation that deals directly with surrogacy.
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# childrens-rights - Friday 10 October, 2014
Bizarre question throws Peace Prize announcement for a loop.
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# childrens-rights - Wednesday 24 September, 2014
Charlie Flanagan has signed an important protocol to a UN convention to strengthen children’s rights.
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# childrens-rights - Wednesday 27 August, 2014
The event will see a number of different international experts discussing children’s rights in Ireland.
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# childrens-rights - Wednesday 16 July, 2014
Ireland’s appearance before the UN Human Rights Committee was disappointing: we have not made the changes recommended four years ago.
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# childrens-rights - Thursday 10 July, 2014
The new Bill has been described as “the most important reform of family law for a generation”.
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# childrens-rights - Tuesday 25 February, 2014
The Children’s Rights Alliance gave the government an overall ‘C’ grade in this year’s report card.
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# childrens-rights - Thursday 30 January, 2014
The Child and Family Agency will take over from the HSE in relation to child welfare.
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# childrens-rights - Saturday 26 October, 2013
Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald explains why Emily Logan has been given power to compel gardai to speak to her.
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# childrens-rights - Tuesday 28 May, 2013
The Children’s Rights Alliance says Ireland has only signed up to one of three optional protocols to the UN convention.
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# childrens-rights - Saturday 23 March, 2013
TheJournal.ie has learned that the senator is in discussions over the possibility of joining Fine Gael and running for the seat being vacated by Gay Mitchell next year.
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# childrens-rights - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
In a year when many families and communities lost a child or young person to suicide, it makes no sense that €29 million pledged to be spent on mental health was not used, writes Tanya Ward.
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# childrens-rights - Monday 18 February, 2013
Fine Gael TD said it is an unusual piece of legislation as our laws do not generally address such personal issues as familial bonds.
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The report card comes from the Children’s Rights Alliance, which put the Department of Social Protection at the bottom of the class due to child poverty.
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# childrens-rights - Thursday 27 December, 2012
The Russian president said today he will sign a controversial bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children.
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# childrens-rights - Tuesday 11 December, 2012
The Supreme Court delivers its full ruling into why the Government’s website for the Children’s Referendum was not impartial.
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# childrens-rights - Saturday 1 December, 2012
Revival of medieval ‘foundling’ boxes in which abandoned babies were placed send “bad message to society”.
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# childrens-rights - Tuesday 20 November, 2012
The sexual abuse scandals in Australia’s Catholic Church and the BBC show that there is still work to do beyond the contitutional change passed earlier this month, says the Children’s Rights Alliance.
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# childrens-rights - Sunday 18 November, 2012
Good morning! Here’s the nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
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# childrens-rights - Sunday 11 November, 2012
Which electoral area had the highest proportion of ‘Yes’ votes? Which one had the highest percentage of ‘No’ ballots? And into which top 10 does the Taoiseach’s home constituency fall?
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# childrens-rights - Friday 9 November, 2012
Pat Kavanagh says she has serious questions about the new Child and Family Support Agency.
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Fergus Finlay says countless reports documented Ireland’s failings to protect children, but this constitutional amendment will change that.
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# childrens-rights - Thursday 8 November, 2012
The government’s scaled-down version of ChildrensReferendum.ie needed amending this evening after it omitted part of the referendum being held on Saturday.
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Children’s minister Frances Fitzgerald says the Office of the Attorney General gave legal advice on the website and booklet.
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The head of Amnesty International Ireland addresses concerns of the ‘No’ camp in Children’s Referendum – and says the Constitution will still be unambiguous in asserting the status of the family.
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The Supreme Court says the government’s literature is not impartial, and therefore an inappropriate use of public money.
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The dramatic storyline has not gone unnoticed but it should not permeate people’s opinions, writes Tanya Ward.
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Five youth organisations give test poll to those not entitled to vote – but whose lives are most likely to be affected by the outcome.
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# childrens-rights - Sunday 4 November, 2012
The Minister has strongly criticised what he labelled “the constant misinformation” being propagated by the No side.
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# childrens-rights - Saturday 3 November, 2012
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said future Saturday votes will depend on the turnout in next week’s referendum. Do you support holding votes on Saturdays?
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# childrens-rights - Thursday 1 November, 2012
The High Court today rejected the claim by Mark McCrystal that the Government is using public money to call for a Yes vote – but now the case will go to the Supreme Court.
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# childrens-rights - Wednesday 31 October, 2012
Emotional language and arguments as Frances Fitzgerald and Fergus Finlay argued for a ‘Yes’ vote as John Waters and Kathy Sinnott argued for a ‘No’.
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Refuge centres for victims of domestic abuse are stretched to the limit, forcing vulnerable women and children to stay in dangerous living conditions.
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