Emily Williams

ICCL Submission to the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance ICCL met members of ECRI during its November 2024 monitoring mission to Ireland.

ICCL's submission to ECRI is available here: www.iccl.ie/2024/iccl-su...

Government must acknowledge that racial profiling in policing does occur, and progress Action 1.5 of the National Action Plan Against Racism, "identify and eliminate any policing practices that target specific groups experiencing racism, including through racial or ethnic profiling".

The report from @inarireland.bsky.social and @lucymichael.bsky.social "Experiences of Policing and Brazilians and People of African Descent in Ireland" also provides powerful testimony about experiences of harmful and racist treatment.

There is a plethora of lived experience and research available which documents such experiences, including ICCL's report with the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR), "Policing and Racial Discrimination in Ireland: A Community and Rights Perspective".

Shockingly, in the government viewpoint section, it states that "racial profiling is not a feature of policing in Ireland". This continues the institutional denial of racial profiling and dismisses the lived experiences of those who routinely experience discriminatory treatment.

🧵The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) published its most recent review of Ireland on Tuesday. It made recommendations across @iccl.bsky.social's work , including legislation criminalising hate speech and legislation prohibiting racial profiling by gardaí.

In the last 10 years, around 1 in 1,000 applications to the European Court of Human Rights has led to a violation judgment concerning immigration.

Check out our new factsheet on #Migration and the #ECHR👇

🔗 go.coe.int/FSABl

@coe.int @echr.coe.int

Report finds that gardaí violated garda policies and human rights obligations when policing protest The new Irish Network of Legal Observers has published its first report on the recent protest at Dublin Port on Saturday, 4 October.

The Irish Network of Legal Observers has today published its first report, which found that gardaí violated garda policies and human rights obligations when policing the Dublin’s port tunnel protest on Saturday 4 October 2025.

Read the full report ➡️ www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

ICCL condemns the wholly disproportionate use of force by An Garda Síochána at a Dublin protest opposing genocide in Palestine on Saturday, 4 October.

The first lines of Conor Gearty's Guardian obituary really do hit home why we needed this man now more than ever:

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

A new Explainer out from @aoifemod.bsky.social and me detailing the UK's ECHR commitments under the 1998 Agreement in response to recent speculation. It is short, because there is very little to say - the UK's obligations are evident on the B/GFA's plain text:

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‘Inspirational’ human rights lawyer Conor Gearty dies aged 67 President Michael D Higgins leads tributes for Longford-born law professor and author

‘Inspirational’ human rights lawyer Conor Gearty dies aged 67

What does “Europe” say about using criminal law to limit #FreeSpeech?

Check out this new guide from the 46-member @coe.int👇

🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/porta...

@coemediafreedom.bsky.social #ECHR #FreedomOfExpression

CAJ is recruiting a Solicitor (Legacy) to join our team in Belfast.

This post will focus on legacy litigation, human rights and safeguarding the peace process.

📄 Find out more & apply here: caj.org.uk/get-involved...
📅 Closing date: 6th October 2025

Excellent op-ed by @brianhonan.bsky.social on the dangers of Chat Control

On your point about how these error prone scanning tools drag innocent people into the frame for heinous crimes, we @iccl.bsky.social and DRI previously published figures demonstrating this issue

www.iccl.ie/news/an-gard...

News At One Thursday 4 September 2025 News, sport, business and interviews presented by Rachael English.

On @news.rte.ie News At One, our ED @saoirse-b.bsky.social responded to Irish Prison Services 2024 Report. Overcrowding and ongoing use of mattresses are an unacceptable breach of human dignity. She called for further Investment in probation & community sanctions. Listen back (36:39): bit.ly/4oYh3SK

The progress that the NI Secretary announced at NIAC on reform of ICRIR is significant. But it makes the position of those currently involved in the process increasingly difficult. It amounts to the UK Government acknowledging that the current team were all signed up to a rights deficient process:

Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights - Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights - www.coe.int European convention on human rights : How it changed the lives of many people across the continent.

The European Convention on Human Rights entered into force on this day in 1953.

The convention has improved people’s lives, in many different ways, across the continent.

Here are more than 200 examples: www.coe.int/ECHR

There are thousands more.

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

What is the ECHR and why does it matter? - Liberty

72 years ago today, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) came into force.

It put all our human rights down into law for the first time – but today, it’s under attack.
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www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/what-i...

Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."

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Hearing disturbing news that Egyptian #HRD Karim Ennarah, Research Director with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, was arrested today & is being questioned by state security prosecution for unknown reasons. The continued harassment of EIPR staff must stop.

US tells UN it will snub regular rights review The United States told the United Nations in a letter on Thursday that it will not take part in an upcoming regular review of its record on human rights."I write to inform you that United States of Am...

NEW: The Trump administration said it will boycott a regular UN review of the United States' record on human rights.

This sets a dangerous precedent and weakens critical protections at home and abroad. We will continue to hold the Trump administration accountable for human rights violations.

Ireland urged to raise age of criminal responsibility to 14 Ireland’s age of criminal responsibility should be increased to 14 to bring it in line with European standards, the government has been urged.

Ireland’s age of criminal responsibility should be increased to 14 to bring it in line with European standards, the government has been urged. @iccl.bsky.social‬

It is really good to see her included in this.

That image broke through in ways nothing else has.

People see who she is.

We can't shrink from taking a stance on Palestine Action When organisations are proscribed, we can't privilege one kind of terrorism over another

This is a very poor piece from the independent reviewer. He's making it seem like the application of the UK's terrorism laws is automatic when we know for a fact that the breadth of the UK's definition of terrorism requires discretion to prevent perverse application.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

STOP TELLING ME WHAT NIGEL FARAGE HAS SAID I SIMPLY DO NOT WANT TO KNOW

🛑 STOP THE CRIME AND POLICING BILL

It will further criminalise poverty, and make it harder for people to protest

It’s back in Parliament in September

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Despite overcrowding, prison officials told to exclude immigration detainees from temporary release The Irish Prison Service had asked the government to revisit the policy, given more serious high-risk offenders had to be released early to make the space.

Despite overcrowding, prison officials told to exclude immigration detainees from temporary release. The Irish Prison Service had asked the government to revisit the policy, given more serious high-risk offenders had to be released early to make room. More here www.dublininquirer.com/despite-over...