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Justice for Magdalenes Ireland: Submission to the United Nations Committee against Torture

O'Rourke, Maeve
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2011-05
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Magdalenes, Research, Justice, United Nations Committee Against Torture, Ireland
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O'Rourke, Maeve. (2011). Justice for Magdalenes Ireland: Submission to the United Nations Committee Against Torture, Justice for Magdalenes Research.
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Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries were residential, commercial and for-profit laundries operated by four Irish orders of nunsi where between the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922ii and 1996, when the last institution closed, a number of girls and women, estimated in the tens of thousands,iii were imprisoned, forced to carry out unpaid labour and subjected to severe psychological and physical maltreatment.
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