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The votes returned a verdict to repeal the Eighth Amendment, 66.4% to 33.6%. The results of the referendum entailed that the Irish Parliament would begin to legislate and reform abortion laws in the country. The referendum addressed one of the key areas of human rights concern found by The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. [20]
Magna Carta Hiberniae 1216 [1] (or the Great Charter of Ireland) is an issue of the English Magna Carta (or Great Charter of Liberties) in Ireland. King Henry III of England's charter of 1216 was issued for Ireland on 12 November 1216 but not transmitted to Ireland until February 1217; it secured rights for the Anglo-Norman magnates in Ireland. [2]
The Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) was a public body, state-funded but independent of government, that promoted and protected human rights in the Republic of Ireland. It was established on 23 July 2001 under the Human Rights Commission Act 2000. [1] It was dissolved in 2014.
A bill of rights, sometimes called a declaration of rights or a charter of rights, is a list of the most important rights to the citizens of a country. The purpose is to protect those rights against infringement from public officials and private citizens. [1] Bills of rights may be entrenched or unentrenched. An entrenched bill of rights cannot ...
In order for the Irish state to ratify the treaty the constitution had to be amended and this required a referendum to be held. The Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland amended the constitution to permit ratification. The Treaty of Lisbon gives legal effect to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. This ...
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No. 1/1922 – Constitution of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Éireann) Act 1922 An Act of the Irish Constituent Assembly as the Oireachtas did not yet exist. No. 2/1922 – Adaptation of Enactments Act 1922; No. 3/1922 – Appropriation Act 1922; No. 4/1922 – Local Elections Postponement Act 1922; No. 5/1922 – Expiring Laws Continuance ...
Ireland ratified the Thirteenth Protocol to the ECHR, which prohibits the death penalty in wartime, at its opening in 2002. [140] As a member of the European Union (EU), Ireland is subject to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, an extension of the ECHR proclaimed in 2000 which became EU law in 2009. [143]