02 July 2024
On Tuesday, 18 June 2024, Ulster University’s Belfast Campus hosted a one-day workshop, bringing together civil society, policymakers, and academics to reflect on the current state of human rights protection, with a particular focus on the role of positive obligations in the protection of human rights. The event, organised by the Transitional Justice Institute and […]
Read More
07 June 2024
Do you know how international human rights treaties could help deliver progress for LGBTQIA+ rights? Do you know your CEDAW from your UNCRPD? If not, watch this webinar and discover how you can use them to bring about change! This event was hosted by the Consortium as part of the LGBTQIA+ Awareness Week programme and […]
Read More
05 June 2024
We have today launched a briefing on the Safeguarding the Union package. This provides a civil society perspective on its contents and its implications for human rights and equality protections under the Windsor Framework. The Safeguarding the Union package consists of a Command Paper and three Statutory Instruments and is the product of negotiations between […]
Read More
04 June 2024
Watch the recording of a critical discussion of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act to explore its consequences for human rights protections in Northern Ireland and the opportunities for challenging it. This recorded event provides the opportunity to explore the legal, political, and lived experience impacts of the legislation in the wider context […]
Read More
13 May 2024
Following the passage into law of the Safety of Rwanda Act the Human Rights Consortium has updated its briefing note on the implications of this legislation for human rights in Northern Ireland. The UK government recently passed the ‘Safety of Rwanda Act’ which seeks to limit the use of human rights laws to challenge their […]
Read More
13 May 2024
The Human Rights Consortium welcomes today’s judgement from the High Court disapplying multiple provisions of the Illegal Migration Act in Northern Ireland due to their incompatibility with the Windsor Framework and declaring provisions incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. The challenge was brought by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) alongside an […]
Read More
23 April 2024
The Human Rights Consortium has expressed profound concern as the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act passed its final stages in Parliament. This Act breaches the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement through attacks on the European Convention on Human Rights and disregard shown to the rights protections afforded by the Windsor Framework, contradicting the UK’s established […]
Read More
19 April 2024
In March, over 90 civil society leaders from across the United Kingdom convened in Cardiff for the third 4 Nations Civil Society Conference. Organised by the Welsh Consortium for Voluntary Action (WCVA) and Wales Governance Centre in partnership with the Civil Society Alliance (CSA) and the Human Rights Consortiums in Northern Ireland and Scotland, the conference […]
Read More
21 March 2024
Fifteen civil society organisations from Northern Ireland, coordinated by the Human Rights Consortium and The PILS Project, wrote to the Prime Minister on 20th March calling on him to withdraw the potentially unlawful Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill. The letter highlighted our concerns that the bill violates the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and the […]
Read More29 February 2024
The Human Rights Consortium, a coalition of 160 NGOs dedicated to a rights based society, welcomes the significant ruling yesterday in the High Court that the immunity provisions of the Legacy Act breach the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and Article 2 of the Windsor Framework. This ruling underscores the ongoing importance of Article […]
Read More