Last summer, the chair of the UN Human Rights Committee described
Ireland’s human rights record, particularly in relation to women and
children, as ‘quite a collection’.
In a withering
assessment, Nigel Rodley, a leading expert in international human rights
law, and a former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, said Ireland’s
collection of human rights failures have gone on for a period that was
hard ‘to imagine any state party tolerating’.