This year, Ireland will undergo the second periodic examination of our human rights record under the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The UPR is a peer-to-peer review process in which each of the 192 states that comprise the United Nations voluntarily submit themselves for a review of their domestic human rights record every four and a half years. This year, once again, it's Ireland's turn.

The Review takes place at the headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva. During the Review Ireland will outline the progress it has made on implementing many of the recommendations from its first review in 2011. All of the 192 UN States will have an opportunity to make concrete recommendations to Ireland on a myriad of human rights issues including:

• Housing and homelessness 

• Reproductive rights 

• The rights of persons with a disability 

• Access to adequate healthcare and education 

• LGBTI rights 

• Prisons and detention 

• Immigration and asylum 

• The rights of children and older people 

• The rights of Travellers, Roma and other minority groups in Ireland 

• The historical abuse of women and children 

• and many others...

During its first UPR Cycle in 2011, 127 separate recommnedations were made to Ireland by other UN States. This year, Ireland will report on its progress in implementing those recommendations it accepted and to highlight new issues which have emerged. 

 

Come and join us at one of our live webcast locations in 

Dublin, Cork and Galway 

and hear about

Your Rights. Right Now.

Cork

Creative Zone, Q Floor, Boole Library, University College Cork, Cork

R.S.V.P. to rightsnow@iccl.ie

Please provide your name and the location of the event you wish to attend

For more information on the UPR see www.rightsnow.ie

Your Rights. Right Now is a coalition of 17 leading NGOs, trade unions and civil society groups that have come together to produce Ireland's 2nd Civil Society Stakeholder Report to the 25th Session of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review