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Publication Assessing the long-term impact and legacy of truth commissions(Intersentia Publishers, 2019-05) Ferrara, Anita[No abstract available]Publication Ireland's Magdalene laundries: Confronting a history not yet in the past(Arlen House, 2016) O'Rourke, Maeve; Smith, James M.On 19th February 2013, the Taoiseach and Tánaiste offered an emotional apology to women who had survived Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries – the infamous convents where over 10,000 girls and women were imprisoned and forced into unpaid labour between 1922 and 1996.iiiPublication Publication Concluding observations of the UN Committee against Torture, Recommendation to Ireland regarding the Magdalene Laundries, 2011(Hart Publishing, 2018-12-27) O'Rourke, Maeve[No abstract available]Publication The justice for Magdalenes campaign(Bloomsbury Professional, 2015-10-22) O'Rourke, MaeveIn February 2013, the Taoiseach1 issued a State apology to survivors of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries “for the hurt that was done to them, and for any stigma they suffered, as a result of the time they spent in a Magdalene Laundry”.2 Four months later, the government announced an ex gratia restorative justice scheme, which it promised would offer the surviving women lump sum payments, State contributory pension payments, wide-ranging health and community care and the assistance of a Dedicated Unit in exchange for their agreement not to sue any State body or agency with respect to their time in a Magdalene institution.3 These measures, although insufficient to meet all of the State’s human rights obligations regarding the Magdalene Laundries, 4 represented a significant shift in government policy towards this group of institutional abuse survivors.Publication Conceptualising human rights as international constitutional guarantees: promises and perils of comparativism(Presses Universitaires d'Aix-Marseille, 2016) Yahyaoui Krivenko, Ekaterina; |~|1267872|~|[No abstract available]Publication Revisiting the reservations dialogue: negotiating diversity while preserving universality through human rights law(Hart Publishing, 2016-04-30) Yahyaoui Krivenko, Ekaterina; |~|[No abstract available]