Brilliant article !
Thank you for posting it .
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Minister Fitzgerald hopes to be in a position to inform CEDAW that she has just secured the passage by the Irish Parliament of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015.
As the title of the Bill suggests, the Bill was initiated in the Oireachtas prior to the last General Election. In fact, it was initiated in the pre-election Seanad. The current Seanad is composed as to 80% of its membership of people who have never debated any part of this legislation. Moreover, the current Seanad is one in which the Government has the support of only one-third of its members.
Put shortly,
four out of five members of the current Seanad have never been consulted about the contents of this Bill and have never had an opportunity, as they would with ordinary legislation, to consider the principles and policy behind the Bill and to consider its detailed provisions.
In these circumstances, her attempt to push the Bill through the newly formed Seanad in an afternoon, as the Minister hopes to do, is nothing short of
scandalous. If the Minister wants to report “progress” at the CEDAW hearing in Geneva, there is nothing at all to stop her from saying that she has made significant progress in its passage through our parliament.
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1 . She hopes to present a trophy legislation at the UN .
Ironically , in 2012 the UN made the unequivocal Recommendation to
Universally Decriminalise prostitution worldwide !
I'm just after reading the many pages of the Final Report ; if you are interested , the pertinent content starts on page 38 .
Makes for eye opening interesting reading , Ireland and Fitzgerald going dead opposite to those recommendations
that were compiled after
years of international
research by dedicated 'in-the-know' field workers / researchers .
Dead opposite , dead against !
http://www.hivlawcommission.org/reso...&Health-EN.pdf
2 . That IS scandalous !!
The original (two Sex Workers invited) Oireachtas Committee Meeting / Hearing was in 2013 February !
Even that process and the way it was carried out was scandalous , but now what this Min o Justice is trying on is Unlawful .
No ?
: unequivocally . unequivocal ... -- I like that word .
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