Irish Times: Shatter defends State record on rights
From the Irish Times, 7 October 2011:
MINISTER FOR Justice Alan Shatter has said the Republic would act quickly to implement a recent ruling on abortion by the European Court of Human Rights, and was also “seriously considering” conferring ethnic minority status on Travellers.
Mr Shatter was speaking in Geneva yesterday, where the State’s human rights record was put under scrutiny at the UN.
At the hearing the Government came under pressure regarding the poor condition of the State’s prisons. Under questioning by fellow member states as part of the UN’s universal periodic review, Mr Shatter defended the Government’s performance in areas such as children’s rights and mental health.
