As the National Human Rights Institution, we monitor human rights in Ireland. We provide recommendations and inform monitoring bodies’ assessments of how Ireland is meeting its obligations under international human rights conventions.
There are three systems that Ireland report under for human rights:
- The United Nations
- The Council of Europe
- The European Union
United Nations
We provide recommendations to the UN under:
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Universal Periodic Review
Council of Europe
We provide engage with the Council of Europe about the:
- European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
- European Social Charter (ESC)
- Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (GREVIO)
- Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA)
- European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)
- Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law
- Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM)
- European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT)
European Union
We engage with the European Union about:
- EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
- European Semester
- Rule of Law mechanism
