Last March following their spring meeting the Catholic Bishops issued a statement and published a leaflet on marriage and the family. Yesterday they met for the summer meeting and made another statement on the Civil Partnership Bill. * Protection and support for marriage and family Bishops discussed the statement Why Marriage Matters which was published […]
Tags:Bishops' Conference·Catholic Church·Civil Partnership Bill·Dáil Éireann·Freedom of thought·Law·Oireachtas·Same-sex relationship
In the first of this weeks Guest Posts – Louise blogs about Imprisonment for Debt Imprisonment solely on the grounds of failure to fulfil a contractual obligation is considered a human rights violation and is prohibited by Article 1 of the 4th Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and Article 11 of […]
Tags:Civil and political rights·ECHR·High Court·Human rights·Law·Prison
Update: The Debate may not take place tomorrow due to an emergency round of statements from party spokespersons on Haiti. The Adoption Bill debate may have a large number of speakers and so time for the Civil Partnership Bill Debate may be restricted. The Second Stage of the Civil Partnership Bill will resume on Thursday […]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·Ireland·Law·Legislation·Politics
Berfore the debate took place yesterday you may remember hearing that FF were having a special meeting with Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Dermot Ahern. The meeting was to discuss the possible inclusion of an amendment protecting those who do not want to offer services to those registering their civil partnership or being […]
Tags:#cpbill·Dáil Éireann·Irish Times·Law·Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform
Some in Fianna Fáil think that those who wish to have their gender legally recognised as the gender they acquire do so for financial gain or to fiddle welfare systems. This is news to me! I don’t get how someone who changes their gender is better off financially (particularly as women still only earn 4/5ths […]
Tags:European Convention on Human Rights·Fianna Fáil·Green·Human rights·Law·Mary Hanafin·Republic of Ireland