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Ireland US: Defeat at Clusters Parley US efforts to undermine a new treaty banning cluster munitions met with significant defeat today at the final negotiations in Dublin, Human Rights Watch said. May 28, 2008 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version European Parliament: Condemn Complicity in Illegal CIA Activity The European Parliament should condemn European complicity in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program of “extraordinary renditions” and secret detention of prisoners, Human Rights Watch said today. February 12, 2007 Press Release Printer friendly version Ireland: Child Soldiers Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers There are indications of under-18s in government armed forces as voluntary recruits are accepted at seventeen. June 12, 2001 Multi Country Report Ireland: Landmine Monitor Report 2000 The Republic of Ireland has long been in the forefront of countries working toward the elimination of antipersonnel landmines. The Irish government was able to ratify the Mine Ban Treaty (MBT) immediately upon signature on 3 December 1997, because it took as implementing legislation the Explosives (Land Mines) Order that had been approved by the Dail, the Irish parliament on 12 June 1996. This Order makes the manufacture, stockpiling, transfer and use of antipersonnel landmines a criminal offence in Ireland.97 The tactical doctrine and training manuals of the Defence Forces have been amended to comply with the MBT August 1, 2000 Multi Country Report Children in Northern Ireland Abused by Military Forces and Paramilitaries Children have suffered greatly as a result of the conflict in Northern Ireland; of the almost 3,000 people who have lost their lives since 1969 in political violence associated with "The Troubles," many have been children killed by paramilitaries or by security forces.2 Moreover, children in the province are caught between two powerful groups C security forces and paramilitaries. Police officers and soldiers harass young people on the street Chitting, kicking and insulting them. Police officers in interrogation centers insult, trick and threaten youngsters and sometimes physically assault them. Children are locked up in adult detention centers and prisons in shameful conditions. The extent of the violence inflicted on children is appalling. Helsinki Watch heard dozens of stories from children, their parents, lawyers, youth workers and political leaders of children being stopped on the street and hit, kicked and abused again and again by police and soldiers. And seventeen-year-olds told Helsinki Watch of severe beatings in detention during interrogations by police. July 1, 1992 Report Download PDF, 317 KB, 65 pgs Printer friendly version
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