At our next meeting the Committee for Education will receive briefings from:
🔵NIHRC
🔵Education NI on the draft guidance on Restraint and Seclusion
📅 15th May
⏰ 14:00
📄 Agenda - lk.cmte.fyi/KtLV
🏛️ Room 29
📺 NIA TV (niassembly.tv)

Today, we presented to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on the implications of any potential UK withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) for Northern Ireland.

You can watch the recording of the committee session here: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/92……

You can now access the full judgment in relation to our legal challenge to the Illegal Migration Act.

It can be read through the following link:
judiciaryni.uk/judicial-decis…

NIHRC

This morning from 9:30am, the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee will hear from our Chief Commissioner Alyson Kilpatrick and policy colleagues on the implications of any potential UK withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) for Northern Ireland.

Watch here…

Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission secures UN re-accreditation NIHRC irishlegal.com/articles/north…

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission was delighted to meet with the representatives of the International Commission of Jurists.

We were able to update them on our work in promoting and protecting human rights in Northern Ireland.

icj NIHRC

Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission secures UN re-accreditation NIHRC irishlegal.com/articles/north…

'Human Rights Commission Welcomes ‘A’ Status Accreditation' NIHRC

Chief Commissioner Alyson Kilpatrick: “We are delighted that the Commission has been re-accredited as an ‘A’ status National Human Rights Institution after a lengthy deferral. This reflects some recent…

At the @GANHRI General Assembly our Chief Commissioner Alyson Kilpatrick was delighted to be presented with our certificate of Accreditation as an A-status National Human Rights Institution.

This award which is supported by the United Nations, endorses NIHRC as fully compliant with the…

Our Chief Commissioner (and recently elected ENNHRI Board Member) Alyson Kilpatrick was grateful to attend the ENNHRI General Assembly meeting with colleagues across the network.

Our Director of Finance (and ENNHRI Finance Committee Chair) provided a finance update to members.

NIHRC joined us this week in visiting Regent House School and St Catherine’s Collage to present them with their Declarations of Sport & Human Rights, which they chose to sign up to after our Sport & Human Rights workshop!🌟

#Sport &HumanRights

'Around the world, media workers are risking their lives trying to bring us news on everything from war to democracy.

Without press freedom, we won't have any freedom.

A free press is not a choice, but a necessity.'

- António Guterres on #PressFreedomDay

The NIHRC will be closed this Monday 6 May 2024 for the Bank Holiday. It will reopen on Tuesday 7 May 2024.

This year the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission is celebrating its 25th anniversary. We were setup in 1999 to promote and protect the rights of everyone in Northern Ireland.

Chief Commissioner Alyson Kilpatrick: “Human rights were an integral component of the Belfast…

GANHRI 2024 Annual Meeting starts Monday. 200+ leaders from #NHRIs , UN partners and civil society will discuss pressing #HumanRights issues and opportunities to collaborate. These conversations help foster innovation, drive change + uphold rights.
More: bit.ly/44n9D1E

This week NIHRC and Commonwealth Games Northern Ireland were delighted to visit Regent House School to present them with their Declaration on Sport and Human Rights.

Signing up to the Declaration, the school has pledged to promote human rights, equality, participation, accessibility, procurement and good…

A week from now, #NHRIs from across #Europe will gather at our General Assembly in Geneva 🇨🇭.

6 months after our last General Assembly, we look forward to discussing crucial network matters, diving into the progress the network has made, and seeing our members 🙏.

Stay tuned💡!

Looking back to March when we joined over 200 students who engaged in our Sport & Human Rights workshop!🌟

Take a look at what they got up to - fb.watch/rLnvb203Kv/

📹: Northern Visions nvtv Belfast

#Sport &HumanRights