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THE GOVERNMENT HAS been praised for agreeing to sign a United Nations protocol that’s aimed at further enhancing the rights of children in Ireland.
Minister James Reilly announced that the Government has approved his proposal that the Third Optional Protocl to the UNCRC be signed and ratified.
This protocol provides for communication between citizens and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Essentially, it gives children in Ireland a more direct way to have their complaints about violations of their rights heard by a United Nations Committee.
Reilly said:
the Protocol will reinforce and complement national mechanisms allowing children to submit complaints for violations of their rights. It is right that children in Ireland should have the same facility to access this new UNCRC rights mechanism as their counterparts in other participating countries.
Tanya Ward, Chief Executive of the Children’s Rights Alliance said:
This new procedure will enable children and their representatives to complain to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child when their rights have been breached.
Now children will have somewhere to turn when our national bodies and courts cannot help them.
Ireland is one of the first countries in the world to sign and ratify the Third Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. States that have already ratified this Protocol include: Albania, Belgium, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Gabon, Germany, Montenegro, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Thailand, said the CRA.
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The photo of the building standing alone encased in ice is like something out of Fringe
Is that Agent Dunham?!
That’s class!!
I heard an interview the other day on coast to coast fm, some weather scientist was talking about “how our planet is slowly entering a mini ice age”.
Bro lives in Chicago, winters ain’t pretty but they’re summers make up for it more then enough!
Wow. The last three photos in particular are amazing.
Im about an hour south of there right now, its cold, but its no mini Ice Age. We would normally have a bunch of snow by now, but theres nothing atall.
I live south of there too(south side Irish)..today felt like a heat wave compared to Monday and Tuesday ..bring on the 90 degree weather !!!!!
Tough work on those conditions. Hard men
Looks very like my old primary school.
It’s like something youd see in a movie!
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