Watch timelapse footage of our banner being installed on Liberty Hall on 22 September 2011
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The 'Your Rights Right Now' Roadtrip
The 'Your Rights. Right Now' UPR campaign launch, 31 January 2011
On 6 October 2011, Ireland will be examined for the first time by the United Nations on our human rights record under the Universal Periodic Review or UPR. Seventeen leading organisations have come together to make sure that the United Nations hears your views about Your Rights. Right Now. Our voices are stronger if we work together. Read our report, and follow the process live from Geneva on this website from 8am (Irish time) on 6 October 2011.
Orla Tinsley joins rights campaigners to launch the "Your Rights Right Now" campaign's flagship 25 metre-high 'Save the date' banner, which was unfurled on Dublin's Liberty Hall on 22 September 2011.
The Your Rights Right Now/ Youthreach Human Rights Competition prizegiving, which was held on 27 September 2011 at the Office for the Ombudsman for Children. Prizewinner Lauren Donovan will will accompany our partners in the 'Your Rights Right Now' campaign in the delegation to Ireland's international examination in Geneva on 6 October 2011. She will visit the European headquarters of the United Nations and watch Minister of Justice Alan Shatter TD being asked questions about Ireland's human rights record, learning first hand about the workings of the international human rights system
Above: Thomas Larkin (Third Place), Lauren Donovan (First Place) and Clare King (Second Place) with Mark Kelly, Director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and Ken Breen of Gallagher Shatter Solicitors, sponsors of the first prize
Below: Noeline Blackwell, Director General of FLAC, presenting Lauren Donovan with her winner's certificate.
