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The Connolly Youth Movement has relations with a number of young communist organisations around the world. The CYM attends the Meeting of European Communist Youth Organizations (MECYO). [8] The CYM supported the programme of the Communist Party of Ireland until a vote of the membership rescinded it at an Extraordinary Ard Fheis on 9 January ...
[6] The Constitution's framing of family and education rights in Articles 40 to 44 reflected Catholic social teaching as in Quadragesimo anno. [7] Over the 1990s and 2000s, a political consensus developed in Ireland that children's rights needed to be strengthened in the Constitution to counterbalance family rights. [8]
Currie had brought their grievance to the local council and to Stormont, but had been told to leave. The incident invigorated the civil rights movement. [89] A monument to Northern Ireland's first civil rights march. On 24 August 1968, the civil rights movement held its first civil rights march from Coalisland to Dungannon. Many more marches ...
The spectrum of civil rights, youth rights and anti-war activism of Tom Hayden, Keith Hefner and other 1960s youth laid a powerful precedent for modern youth activism. John Holt, Myles Horton and Paulo Freire were important in this period. Youthful life and expression defined this era.
Since the turn of the 2000s, Labour Youth has run campaigns on repealing the 8th Amendment, [8] [9] [10] opposing sexism, [11] [12] [13] extending voting rights to 16 and 17 year olds, [14] workers rights, [15] same-sex marriage, [16] sexual consent [17] and ending Direct Provision, [18] along with other issues related to students and young ...
The commission stands as a government body that ensures that all public bodies in Ireland respect and protect the human rights of Irish citizens. This responsibility is outlined in section 42 of the Irish Human Rights Act, which states that it was, "established a positive duty on public sector bodies to: eliminate discrimination, promote ...
Their primary role is in campaigning for civil rights as well as networking with other civil rights groups both nationally and internationally. During the divorce campaign of the 1980s and 1990s, the ICCL was among others who established the Divorce Action Group which campaigned to support the legalisation of divorce which had previously been ...
The party's youth wing is the Republican Socialist Youth Movement (RSYM). It was founded by former members of 'Official' Sinn Féin in 1974 during the Troubles, but claims the legacy of the Irish Socialist Republican Party of 1896–1904. The party opposes the Good Friday Agreement and the European Union.