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    The breach of women's rights are "grave and systematic"

    No surprise there then:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-43167255


    The UK breaches the rights of women in Northern Ireland by unduly restricting their access to abortion, a UN Committee has found.

    "Denial of abortion and criminalisation of abortion amounts to discrimination against women because it is a denial of a service that only women need," said the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.

    "It puts women in horrific situations."


    #2
    Last night's the View (weekly NI politics show) was due to discuss the upcoming Abortion referendum in the South, but it was pulled to allow SF and DUP to shout at each other.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View Post
      Last night's the View (weekly NI politics show) was due to discuss the upcoming Abortion referendum in the South, but it was pulled to allow SF and DUP to shout at each other.
      If only they had some form of elected chamber in which to do that…

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        #4
        Don't forget the 11 District Councils

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          #5
          It might be me but every since that OHCHR Working Group on Arbitrary Detention report on Assange I've not been able to take UN reports at face value. I mean there doesn't seem to be anything egregiously wrong with this one, but still...

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