Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (2019) Ireland and the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Country

Ireland

Title

Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (2019) Ireland and the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

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Year

2019

Type of publication

Report

Geographical coverage

National

Area/location of interest

Not applicable - national level

Type of Institution

National human rights body

Institution

Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission

Main Thematic Focus

Racism & xenophobia

Target Population

General population

Key findings

Key recommendaytions from the IHREC Alternative Report include: State should withdraw its reservation to Art.4 of the CERD; CERD should be incorporated into Irish Law; Create a human rights and equality parlaimentary committee; the new Anti-racism committee should be grounded in human rights and equality standards; introduce a new National Action Plan Against Racism and increase public awareness of racism; Improve data collection and reporting of human rights and equality data to inform policy, legislation and service provision.Current hate speech legislation is inadequate; also concern raised on current position of judicial discretion on sentencing hate motivated offences;noted concern on lack of development hate crime legislation and need for hate crime legislation; reform required to address hate speech including racist hate speech on/offline; Education required to promote digital literacy across age demographics; racial profiling to be addressed through law; human rights and equality training should be delivered to police and across the criminal justice system to incorporate intercultural awareness; evaluation of cultural competency of health care frontline workers and increase diversity of same; teacher training programmes should be provided on combatting racism.

Methodology (Qualitative/Quantitative and exact type used, questionnaires etc)

Desk research.

Sample details and representativeness

N/A

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