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		<title>Opposition bill on teachers and sexual orientation: the constitutional context</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Fianna Fáil senator, Averil Power, has published a bill which would prohibit discrimination against teachers on grounds of sexual orientation. Having enacted and maintained the current provisions in force during its years in office, the party seems to have performed an about-turn on this issue: leader Micheál Martin said: “As a republican party, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanrights.ie/index.php/2012/02/22/opposition-bill-on-teachers-and-sexual-orientation-the-constitutional-context/</link>
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		<title>(Past) Time for Meaningful &#8216;Action on X&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I attended and spoke at a public meeting organised by Action on X, a lobbying and campaigning organisation established to pressurise the government into introducing legislation for the X Case (Attorney General v X [1992] 1 IR 1), which is now 20 years old. As readers are likely to know, there is currently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanrights.ie/index.php/2012/02/22/past-time-for-meaningful-action-on-x/</link>
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		<title>Justice Committee Hearings on Capacity Legislation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality will hear submissions from civil society groups on the proposed Mental Capacity Bill. The organisations participating in the hearing are: Inclusion Ireland, Members of the Psychological Society of Ireland, the Alzheimers Society of Ireland, the National Institute for Intellectual Disability (Trinity College Dublin) and the Mental [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanrights.ie/index.php/2012/02/22/justice-committee-hearings-on-capacity-legislation/</link>
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		<title>Visit of Vice-president Xi Jinping and Ireland&#8217;s response to difficult issues in international relations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The publicity surrounding the visit of Vice-president Xi Jinping to Ireland affirms the important role China now plays within the international legal order. Other than perhaps the pomp and ceremony surrounding the visits of US Presidents, his visit is as well publicised, if not better, than what most heads of state usually receive. Such ceremony, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanrights.ie/index.php/2012/02/21/visit-of-vice-president-xi-jinping-and-irelands-response-to-difficult-issues-in-international-relations/</link>
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		<title>Signs of progress on the children&#8217;s rights amendment?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Human Rights in Ireland is delighted to welcome this post from former regular contributer Aoife Nolan. Aoife is a Senior Lecturer at Durham Law School and an expert in the field of children&#8217;s rights. Yesterday, the Minister for Children told the Dail that she will seek approval from the Government to hold a referendum on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanrights.ie/index.php/2012/02/20/signs-of-progress-on-the-childrens-rights-amendment/</link>
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		<title>Resource Allocation Revisited: Higher Education Fees and the Courts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Judges in England and Wales have long been sensitive of the boundaries of their authority under the Judicial Review jurisdiction. Lord Hope recently sought to highlight the limits of the judicial role in the Axa Insurance (2011) case, by contrasting it with the focus of Parliament (at [49]): While the judges, who are not elected, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanrights.ie/index.php/2012/02/20/resource-allocation-revisited-higher-education-fees-and-the-courts/</link>
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		<title>Same-sex marriage: the &#8216;passive virtues&#8217; of the ninth circuit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are delighted to welcome another guest post from Dr Conor O&#8217;Mahony, Lecturer in Constitutional Law at University College Cork. Alexander Bickel would be proud. Exactly 50 years after he wrote The Least Dangerous Branch, his classic work on constitutional theory, it seems that his ideas are having more impact than ever. He can claim authorship [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanrights.ie/index.php/2012/02/17/same-sex-marriage-the-passive-virtues-of-the-ninth-circuit/</link>
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		<title>Launch of new Counter Extremism resource</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) has developed and launched www.counterextremism.org, an online resource for policy makers working on radicalisation and polarisation. It includes an easily searchable up-to-date repository of government policies and programmes, both current and historical, and contains a log of case studies and evaluated best practices. This library of resources acts as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanrights.ie/index.php/2012/02/14/launch-of-new-counter-extremism-resource/</link>
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		<title>GPS monitoring of criminal suspects: Lessons from the US?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Surveillance is of critical importance in the investigation of serious and organised crime, in determining the extent and patterns of criminal behaviour, and in the gathering of evidence to construct a case against a suspect; thus it has been described as one of the most important legal weapons deployed by the United States against Mafia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanrights.ie/index.php/2012/02/12/gps-monitoring-of-criminal-suspects-lessons-from-the-us/</link>
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		<title>Call for Papers:Regulating Emotions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The University of Limerick Research Cluster in Emotions in Society (www.ul.ie/emotions) is delighted to announce that it will host a conference on the theme of “Regulating Emotions: Contemporary Understandings and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” on the 30th of April and 1st of May 2012 at the University of Limerick. The call for papers closes 29 February 2012.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.humanrights.ie/index.php/2012/02/10/call-for-papersregulating-emotions/</link>
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