Human Rights in Ireland: From Black-Spot to Role Model?

by Stephen Livingstone, Ivana Bacik

Two leading civil liberties advocates, Stephen Livingstone in Belfast and Ivana Bacik in Dublin, look at the state of human rights in their respective jurisdictions. Professor Livingstone asks whether the work of the equality and human rights commissions and the overhaul of the criminal justice system can help to transform Northern Ireland from Western Europe's human rights "black spot" to a model for other countries. Professor Bacik, successor to President Robinson and President McAleese as Reid Professor of Criminology at Trinity College Dublin, critically examines the Republic's new equality legislation and asks how the rights of travellers, refugees, prisoners and other vulnerable minorities are protected.

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001