This week was Carers’ Week and a good opportunity to highlight how the Human Rights Act is helping disabled people and older people receive the care they need.
WELFARE REFORM – Law Centre NI’s seminar gave Mitigations Panel chair Eileen Evason a chance to clarify the changes to local welfare reform along with a UK perspective from CPAG’s Alison Garnham, a human rights view from Les Allamby and opportunities for scrutiny from Grainne McKeever
LECTURE – On Monday evening Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s chief executive Julia Unwin deivered the Law Centre NI’s social justice lecture and asked “Why Fight Poverty?” She also spoke afterwards about the sweet-toothed man with a social conscience whose legacy she helps steward.
A conference organised by the Law Centre NI to examine Eradicating Modern Slavery in Northern Ireland was held in Belfast today. The full audio is embedded below. The Law Centre’s director Glenn Jordan opened proceedings by telling delegates that “this is not simply a matter for legislators alone but for the whole of civic society”. Glenn noted that many Northern Irish merchants and citizens who “benefited from the existence of the slave trade” in the past. One Larne man owned …
