# Emily Logan

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# Equality

Travellers are ten times more likely to face discrimination compared to other Irish people

The findings are contained in a new report which details experience of discrimination.

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Nov 9th 2017, 3:27 PM

# Gender Inequality

15 million girls under the age of 18 are married every year - that's one every two seconds

Today is the sixth annual International Day of the Girl.

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Oct 11th 2017, 6:00 AM

# represented

'People with disabilities should have a say in tracking UN Convention'

Ireland signed the UN Convention on Rights of People with Disabilities in 2007, but the State is yet to ratify it.

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May 9th 2016, 6:42 PM

# Prison

Melanie McCarthy-McNamara killer wins High Court case over solitary confinement

The High Court decided that Daniel McDonnell’s constitutional rights were breached.

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Feb 18th 2015, 9:05 AM

# New Job

97 people wanted to be the new Ombudsman for Children, but this man got the job

Dr Niall Muldoon has been working in child protection for 20 years.

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Feb 3rd 2015, 4:11 PM

# Vacancy

Fine Gael could have another Seanad headache on its hands

With independent senator Jillian van Turnhout in the running for Children’s Ombudsman there could be another vacancy in the upper house.

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Jan 13th 2015, 8:00 PM

# IHREC

Emily Logan: Give GSOC the power to investigate claims of excessive force by gardaí

The Irish Human Right and Equality Commission is calling for GSOC to be allowed to investigate a wider range of offences.

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Nov 19th 2014, 2:56 PM

# Human Rights

Emily Logan says new commission will make her office more powerful and give new level of independence

President Michael D Higgins will appoint Emily Logan as chief commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission today.

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Oct 31st 2014, 12:24 PM

# Human Rights

Timeline to end 'slopping out' in prisons needs to be set

The new human rights commissioner said she is concerned about serious gaps in prison complaints procedures.

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Oct 11th 2014, 6:00 PM

# you're hired

Children are to help choose the next Ombudsman for Children

They will be involved the developing the job spec and the selection process.

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Sep 29th 2014, 8:53 AM

# family courts series

A Week in the Family Court: 'There needs to be intervention before we reach crisis point'

TheJournal.ie spent a week observing cases in the Family Court. Here’s what the people working in child protection think needs to be done.

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Sep 16th 2014, 10:59 PM

# Child Protection

Closure of St Patrick’s Institution is 'unfinished' as 8 boys remain locked up

The Ombudsman for Children said that ‘vulnerable’ boys should be removed to Weatfield Prison.

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Sep 7th 2014, 7:45 AM

# Child Protection

Number of complaints made to the Ombudsman for Children up 16%

Child protection continues to be a problem in Ireland said Emily Logan.

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Sep 2nd 2014, 10:45 PM

# Child Protection

Keeping children in Direct Provision for 10 years is not right, says Logan

The issue of direct provision is “unresolved” for the Ombudsman for Children.

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Sep 2nd 2014, 4:17 PM

# news wrap

Lunchtime Fix: 5 things you need to know

Catch up as you refuel.

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Jul 17th 2014, 1:24 PM

# Human Rights

Look who's been nominated Ireland's new human rights commissioner...

Emily Logan will step down from her post as the Ombudsman for Children to take up role on Ireland’s new rights and equality body.

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Jul 17th 2014, 12:56 PM

Voices

Opinion: Prejudice and hysteria caused two Roma children to be taken from their families

I have no doubt Garda and HSE staff acted in what they believed to be the best interests of those two children, but there were clear elements of ethnic profiling involved.

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Jul 3rd 2014, 2:01 PM

# Roma children

Roma girl dyes hair to prevent being taken away from her family again

The little girl had blonde hair and blue eyes, different to her parents and siblings.

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Jul 1st 2014, 10:27 PM

# Reaction

'A wake up call': Where to now after the Logan Report?

The report into the removal of two Roma children from their families last year has been described as “shocking”.

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Jul 1st 2014, 8:30 PM

# Advice

Children's Ombudsman says Ireland must change the way it treats adopted people

Logan has published her recommendations on the Children and Family Relationships Bill.

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Jun 24th 2014, 10:23 AM

# Child Protection

Complaints to Children's Ombudsman have increased by 15% since 2010

One particular investigation showed that a child had been moved to 11 different residencies in 4 months.

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Jun 10th 2014, 7:42 PM

# Anniversary

It's the 10 year anniversary of the Children's Ombudsman Office

Children’s Ombudsman, Emily Logan, says accountability is needed for the independence of Ombudsman institutions.

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Apr 25th 2014, 12:34 PM

# Children's Ombudsman

Roma child cases: Emily Logan's handed her report in to Alan Shatter

The removal of the two children from their families in Dublin and Athlone last October led to strong criticism of the HSE and Gardaí.

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Apr 2nd 2014, 11:17 PM

# Roma children

Children's Ombudsman given powers to investigate gardaí as well as HSE

It follows the removal of two children, aged seven and two, from their parents in Dublin and Athlone on Monday and Tuesday of this week after authorities were informed that they were not their children.

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Oct 25th 2013, 6:44 PM

# Roma children

Shatter: Greece case may have had 'some undue influence' on Roma child removals

The Minister for Justice has said that he has “no doubt” that gardaí and the HSE acted in good faith and expects a report on what happened within two weeks

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Oct 24th 2013, 8:43 AM

# Sexual Abuse

Litany of failures in how HSE dealt with child's abuse allegations

The Ombudsman for Children upheld a complaint from the family and found that the HSE’s actions had negatively affected the young girl.

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Oct 1st 2013, 11:41 AM

# Ombudsman

Boy who would have "been in a wheelchair until he's dead" to have costs paid by HSE

The Office of the Ombudsman for children heard that the HSE had withdrawn funding for a boy born with severe limb abnormalities to travel abroad for treatment.

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Aug 22nd 2013, 10:22 AM

# Leinster House

Oireachtas Agenda: The state of the roads and young offenders

What’s on Leinster House today? Well, as you asked…

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Jul 17th 2013, 7:15 AM

# Young offenders

Officers who mistreated teens at St Patrick's will not move to Wheatfield

After visiting Wheatfield, the Children’s Ombdusman Emily Logan said she felt reassured about the move.

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Jul 6th 2013, 4:05 PM

# Ruairí Quinn

Children with Down Syndrome "let down" by resource allocation

Down Syndrome Ireland is to meet with the Minister for Education, Ruairí Quinn, on Tuesday.

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Jun 20th 2013, 9:30 PM

Evening Wrap

The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…

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May 7th 2013, 4:50 PM

# Ombudsman

Children in care more likely to be 'suspended, excluded and leave school early'

“Given that there are currently 6,300 children in the care of the State – a relatively small number”, Emily Logan believes more should be done to support them.

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May 7th 2013, 11:37 AM

# Ombudsman

Children's Ombudsman gains power to oversee 180 new state bodies

Legislation taking effect today gives Emily Logan the power to investigate the treatment of children by a slew of new agencies.

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Apr 30th 2013, 11:25 AM

# Bullying

Children’s Ombudsman recommends schools take action on cyber-bullying

A nationwide consultation of over 300 pupils finds schools need to better encourage students to take responsibility for their actions.

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Nov 5th 2012, 1:55 PM

# St Patrick's

Minister for Justice: All teenagers to be removed from St Patrick's by 2014

The Inspector of Prisons has reported incidents of forced stripping of prisoners, excessive punishment, and bullying and intimidation of young and vulnerable inmates by staff at the facility.

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Oct 17th 2012, 9:20 AM