Publications
Amicus Curiae submissions made by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission to the High Court in the separate cases of: PHILOMENA LEE v. THE MINISTER FOR CHILDREN, EQUALITY, DISABILITY, INTEGRATION AND YOUTH and MARY HARNEY v. THE MINISTER FOR CHILDREN, EQUALITY, DISABILITY, INTEGRATION AND YOUTH.
Advisory Paper to the Interdepartmental Group on the Government’s Planned Development of a ‘Restorative Recognition Scheme for former residents of Mother and Baby Homes and County Homes’
The Commission was recently granted liberty to intervene before the European Court of Human Rights in a case, Faulkner v Ireland,application no. 30391/18, ECtHR (“Faulkner”), and it filed a submission on the 8th February 2021 with the European Court of Human Rights. The Commission also furnished the Court with replying submissions on the 30th April…
In accordance with its founding legislation, the Commission is mandated to keep under review the adequacy and effectiveness of law and practice in the State relating to the protection of human rights and equality and to examine any legislative proposal and report its views on any implications for human rights or, equality. The purpose of…
The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission’s submission to the Department of Justice on the General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Exploitation of children in the commission of offences) Bill 2020.
The submissions filed by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in its function as amicus curiae in the case of Director of Public Prosecutions v. JD. JD Supreme Court Amicus Curiae – Filed Submissions IHREC
Ireland’s Actions Against Trafficking in Human Beings Submission by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission to the Council of Europe Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) published in October 2021.
A Guide to the Equal Status Acts – French
A Guide to the Employment Equality Acts – Chinese
A Guide to the Employment Equality Acts – Romanian
A Guide to the Employment Equality Acts – Polish
A Guide to the Employment Equality Acts – Latvian
A Guide to the Employment Equality Acts – Lithuanian
A Guide to the Employment Equality Acts – Irish
A Guide to the Equal Status Acts – Chinese
A Guide to the Equal Status Acts – Romanian
A Guide to the Employment Equality Acts – French
A Guide to the Equal Status Acts – Portuguese
A Guide to the Equal Status Acts – Polish
A Guide to the Equal Status Acts – Lithuanian