The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) is honoured to be giving evidence to this Commission on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Belfast Good Friday Agreement. This Agreement, and the subsequent agreements of different kinds designed to implement it, has given us 20 years of relative peace; following a disastrous,...
This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. As we reach this milestone, we believe that it is time to not only celebrate the achievement of the Agreement and the role that civic society played, but to reflect on its implementation and consider how its outstanding provisions regarding rights and equality can...
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...
Discussion seminar on the human rights and equality implications of the EU referendum Venue: The MAC Belfast, Metropolitan Arts Centre, 10 Exchange St, Belfast BT1 2LS [***note change to larger venue, new location adjacent to UU Belfast Campus***] Tuesday 27th September 9.30-1pm Partnership between the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), Ulster University and the Committee on...
