The ECHR is deeply embedded within the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. This commitment does not allow the UK Government to formulate some version of what it regards as ECHR-equivalent protections.

Read our joint statement 👇
@ppr-org.bsky.social & Human Rights Consortium NI

Amazing time this week visiting the Norweigan fjords!!

📍Stavanger
📍Olden
📍Ålesund
📍Haugesund

Stormont’s Executive Committee remains in breach of a legal duty to adopt an anti-poverty strategy for Northern Ireland, a High Court judge ruled today.

BREAKING: CAJ have successfully challenged the NI Executive's failure to adopt an #AntiPoverty strategy!

This morning, the High Court held that the Executive Cmte was in breach of its statutory commitment.

More details to follow.

#PublicInterestLitigation

As the UK’s examination by the UN #CESCR begins, it is truly heartening to see a room like this, full of civil society actors and the national human rights institutions engaging with the process. The growing currency of economic and social rights in UK debates is clear.

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1/2 A busy few weeks for us at Ulster Law School. On 16 January we co-host with @phoenixlaw.bsky.social 'The Windsor Framework, Article 2: Institutional and Substantive Aspects' www.ulster.ac.uk/faculties/ar... @gillkane.bsky.social @nihrc.bsky.social
@equalitycommni.bsky.social

2/2 and then on 23 January an event with the Equality Coalition: 'The Enforcement of Statutory Duties' www.ulster.ac.uk/faculties/ar... @dkeeve1.bsky.social

Mr. Lyons won't meet women's groups and LGBTQI groups, the people behind two social inclusion strategies he has quietly ditched. But he'll meet with these people, who rep organisations keeping their foot on working class communities necks.

My outrage is not faux.