Responding to today’s Ireland V UK judgment, CAJ Director Brian Gormally says; ‘This is a narrow and largely technical decision by the European Court of Human Rights. It considered that the new evidence was not sufficient to show that, had it been taken into account by the original court, it would have been decisive in...
Equal to the task? Effective enforcement of the ‘section 75’ equality duty Presentation of Equality Coalition Research and Launch of the CAJ Equality Duty Enforcement Project Tuesday 12 December 10.30am- 12.30pm UNISON, 165 York Street, Belfast, BT15 1GD The statutory equality duty in section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 was one of the...
Defining public duties to tackle incitement to hatred whilst respecting free expression: reviewing the legal & policy framework A conference hosted by the Equality Coalition in partnership with the George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at QUB, to address the ‘threshold’ and ‘intervention’ questions increasingly defined in human rights law...
Press Statement Date: 27th July 2017 CAJ calls for Equality of Citizenship after Brexit The Belfast Good Friday Agreement recognised it as the birthright of people born in Northern Ireland to identify as Irish or British or both and accordingly to hold British or Irish citizenship or both. This is a fundamental part of the...
