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The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission is an independent public body, "established under the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014," to, "protect and promote human rights and equality in Ireland and build a culture of respect for human rights, equality and intercultural understanding in the State."
This act merged the Irish Human Rights Commission and the Equality Authority together into one body known as the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. This act required that as far as possible members of the commission are drawn from the various minority groups including members from the gay and lesbian community. [59]
Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is outlawed by the Employment Equality Act, 1998 (Irish: An tAcht um Chomhionannas Fostaíochta, 1998) and the Equal Status Act, 2000 (Irish: An tAcht um Stádas Comhionann, 2000). These laws forbid discrimination in any of the following areas: employment, vocational training, advertising ...
Sex Discrimination Act 1975, amended by the Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Act 2002 See also the Employment Equality Regulations covering sexual orientation, religion or belief and age. Northern Ireland has a similar pattern of 'separate' equality legislation.
The day the result was announced the Northern Ireland branch of Amnesty International announced a march in Belfast "on June 13 calling for legislation for same-sex marriage in the North", with its programme director Patrick Corrigan describing Northern Ireland as "now the last bastion of discrimination against gay people in these islands". [154]
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In 2019, a UN rappourteur told Irish representatives at the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, meeting at UN Geneva, to introduce new hate crime legislation to combat the low prosecution rate for offences under the 1989 act, particularly for online hate speech.
Irish Travellers are an ethnic and cultural minority group who have lived in Ireland for centuries and experience overt discrimination throughout Ireland and the United Kingdom. [ 82 ] [ 83 ] [ 84 ] In nature, such discrimination is similar to antiziganism (prejudice against the Roma ) [ 85 ] in the United Kingdom and Europe, [ 84 ] as well as ...