The Assembly election and human rights
Posted by Feargal O'Kane on Mar 08 2007 under Human rights, Alliance Party, DUP, Green Party, SDLP, Sinn Féin, UUP, PUP, Parties, Manifesto |
Patrick Corrigan from Amnesty International has an interesting post on human rights in Northern Ireland and whether this assembly election will make any difference.
Human rights have always been part of, what is now called, the ‘contested space’ in Northern Ireland, writes Patrick Corrigan. Sure, isn’t that how our recent local difficulties erupted in the late 1960s and early 1970s? Dispute over civil and political rights for all citizens, bleeding (literally) into … street disorder … the emergence of paramilitary organisations and … repressive tactics by the State (by the way, feel free to pick your own chronological order for these aforementioned events – for our current purposes, it doesn’t really matter), leading to a 25 year (and counting) cycle of violence and stalemate.
Anyway, after a dozen years of peace-processing, with polls opening in about 30 hours, will the 2007 Assembly election make any difference to human rights?
Read the rest of the entry at the Amnesty ‘Belfast and beyond’ blog.
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