Ellen Murray

Trans Rights are Human Rights – Ellen Murray’s Amnesty NI lecture at Belfast Pride

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on August 13, 2019, 9:30 am | Readers 1959

Read or watch back Ellen Murray’s lecture (delivered on Tuesday 30 July as part of Belfast Pride). Under the title ‘Trans Rights are Human Rights’, she examined the international context, foreign opinion on the “worrying” state of public discourse in the UK, the shared history with disabled rights struggles, as well as healthcare, welfare of children, women’s rights and her hopes for trans rights in Northern Ireland.

Green Party NI conference – tackling waste that holds back Northern Ireland

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on February 27, 2016, 6:47 pm | Readers 1142

Over the last four or five years that I’ve been covering Green Party conferences, the number of exhibitors, the number of delegates and the confidence of the delegates has been increasing. There were a lot of new faces this year, many but not all of them young. As Green Party activists south of the border nervously awaited results from the Irish General Election, the conference agenda in the Clayton Hotel in Belfast included encouraging video messages from the Green Party …