There’s a nice collection of short video interviews with participants in the Belfast Convention over at Amnesty NI.
You can also check out photos of the Belfast event on the Amnesty NI flickr stream.
And read blogs on each of the Belfast Convention sessions over at Amnesty NI blog, Belfast and Beyond.
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Belfast: Blogs, Videos and Photos
Belfast: Devolving criminal justice and policing – human rights considerations…
The discussion ‘Devolving criminal justice and policing – human rights considerations’ addressed how devolution could create a culture of human rights within the criminal justice system, thereby increasing transparency and accountability. The panel, composed of representatives of the main political parties at Stormont, noted that devolution of policing and justice remains the final element of [...]
Read →Belfast: Human Rights and Budget Decisions…
The discussion ‘Human Rights and budget decisions’ was given in a tripartite format, between Dr Aoife Nolan, Ms Mira Dutschke and Mr Eoin Rooney, and concerned the development of methods to measure governmental resource-allocation in the realisation of economic and social rights. The panel noted that liberty is traditionally conceived as an absence of state-interference [...]
Read →Belfast: Shami Chakrabarti’s keynote address…
She ended by quoting, with some irony, Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s assertion that “Human rights are universal, and no injustice is forever”.
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