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The fight for disability rights in Ireland

Students prepare to protest outside Leinster House this Thursday in favour of the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities that has been subject to a 10-year delay

FEATURES

“Despite having signed the convention in 2007, ratification of the CRPD has been subject to numerous delays”

The UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities is the first human rights treaty of the 21st century. The purpose of …

Comment

Trinity, Ireland and Europe’s response to the greatest human rights disaster since WWII

Kevin Keane analyses our response to the refugee crisis and the phenomenon of “episodic outrage”

OP-ED

Europe is facing its worst humanitarian crisis since World War II; the refugee crisis is worsening, claiming more lives and ruining more families, every single day. And what have we done about it? As a society, extremely little. We have