The parties
Use this section to find out what each party has been saying about the major issues.
Election results coming in…
Posted by Lisa on Mar 08 2007 under Election, Election goings on, Alliance Party, DUP, Green Party, SDLP, Sinn Féin, UUP, PUP, Parties
After nearly six hours of counting, the results of the NI elections are beginning to come through.
Get the most up to date info on the BBC election website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2007/nielection/html/main.stm
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.
PUP Manifesto
Posted by Feargal O'Kane on Mar 07 2007 under PUP, Manifesto
The PUP have launched their party manifesto. You can download the full document here or read the BBC’s take on the manifesto.
Election Question time - full footage of the event from NvTV
Posted by Stephen Gray on Mar 05 2007 under Election goings on, Alliance Party, DUP, Green Party, SDLP, Sinn Féin, UUP, Video, PUP
Footage from the Election Question Time hosted at NICVA on 12 February 2007.
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‘Sharing’ or ‘Seperate but Equal’ Manifesto analysis from NICIE
Posted by Lisa on Mar 05 2007 under A Shared Future, Education & training, Alliance Party, DUP, SDLP, Sinn Féin, UUP, Parties, Manifesto
Pam Tilson from NICIE sent this helpful roundup of how the manifestos deal with the issue of creating a shared future.
‘Sharing’ or ‘Separate but Equal’?
How far along the road have each of the parties moved to recognising that ‘separate but equal’ – some kind of benign apartheid - is no longer acceptable and that we need to move towards a society where shared schools, housing, workplaces, leisure facilities and other services are commonplace?
NICVA interview with Alex Maskey (Sinn Féin)
Posted by Stephen Gray on Mar 05 2007 under Election goings on, Sinn Féin, Video
Alex Maskey has a quick chat with Lisa McElherron on the key issues in the forthcoming Assembly election.
Apologies for the poor sound quality - we’ll use a proper microphone next time
NICVA interview with Anna Lo (Alliance party)
Posted by Stephen Gray on Mar 02 2007 under Election, A Shared Future, Education & training, Equality, Race, Alliance Party, Video
Anna Lo, Alliance, called in to NICVA for a discussion with Lisa McElherron on the key issues in the forthcoming Assembly election.
NICVA interview with Deirdre Nelson (DUP)
Posted by Stephen Gray on Mar 02 2007 under Children and families, Rural development, DUP, Women, Video
Deirdre Nelson, DUP, called in to NICVA for a discussion with Lisa McElherron on the key issues in the forthcoming Assembly election
NICVA interview with Stephen Nicholl (UUP)
Posted by Stephen Gray on Mar 02 2007 under Election, Health and wellbeing, UUP, Women, Video
Stephen Nicholl called in to NICVA for a discussion with Lisa McElherron on the key issues in the forthcoming Assembly election.
NICVA interview with Alban Maginness (SDLP)
Posted by Feargal O'Kane on Mar 01 2007 under Education & training, Housing and homelessness, SDLP, Video
Alban Maginness called in to NICVA for a discussion with Lisa McElherron on the key issues in the forthcoming Assembly election.
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