Fitzgerald Told Ireland’s Abortion Law Breaches Human Rights Law
Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald faces a second day of tough questioning today at the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva, having been told yesterday Ireland’s new abortion legislation left it still in breach of international human rights legislation.
The Ireland rapporteur on the committee, Yuval Shany, said yesterday The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act continued to criminalise pregnant women who had a right to an abortion under the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
Ms Fitzgerald, who is leading the delegation to the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva, faced robust questioning on issues including symphysiotomy, human trafficking, asylum, policing oversight and the merger of human rights bodies, as well as access to abortion.
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