
Kevin Hanratty
@kevin_hanratty
Human rights, the great outdoors and adventures with little folk. Director @billofrightsni All tweets in personal capacity.
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Great briefing by Children's Law Centre (CLC) for today’s Assembly debate on SEND. Showing failures to protect the rights of CYP in this jurisdiction. Time the Convention on Rights of Children (CRC) was made legal in domestic law in N.Ireland via our own Bill of Rights. #MakeOurFutureFair




Delighted to meet with Paula Bradshaw MLA Alliance Party Assembly Committee for the Executive Office this week to discuss the multiple rights issues we face in Northern Ireland and how they can be addressed now Northern Ireland Assembly has been restored. Incl Bill of Rights, Human Rights Act and post Brexit arrangements. ⚖️🇺🇳📢



We are pleased to be partnering with Human Rights Consortium Scotland, WCVA | CGGC, and Wales Governance Centre for a webinar next Thursday on Devolution and Progressing Human Rights in Scotland with the implications for Wales and Northern Ireland! Read more and sign up here👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/devolution-a…

This week we briefed Assembly Committee for the Executive Office with our members Children's Law Centre (CLC) & Disability Action & called on them to: 👉Urge GOV.UK to deliver NI Bill of Rights 👉Initiate a #humanrights standards inquiry 👉Ensure compliance with Article 2 & More! 🎥Watch from 1hr 17m: bit.ly/3Q7EysR



Delighted that High Court judgment today following Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission case (that we supported with Public Interest Litigation Support) challenging the Illegal Migration Act means elements of the Act will now be disapplied in Northern Ireland. 📢👏⚖️❤️Statement rb.gy/2yezlr Judgment rb.gy/z4lygh


Great to catch up with Kevin Hanratty and the Human Rights Consortium NI team this morning on outstanding commitments, Windsor Framework and int’l rights standards. Our human rights framework can’t be a casualty of this Tory government - SDLP MPs will fight any attempt to rollback rights.


My article in the The Irish News today reflecting on last weeks challenge to the Illegal Migration Act by Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission & Phoenix Law Belfast The UK Govt needs to learn the lesson & stop ✋ introducing laws that are clearly in violation of fundamental rights. ⚖️📢


Rights for Everyone:➕Positive Obligations and the Protection of Human Rights. Join us for our workshop in partnership with Transitional Justice Institute Transitional Justice Institute /Ulster University 🗓️18th June ⏲️10am - 4pm 🧭UU, York Street Belfast BT15 1WZ Register at: shorturl.at/8Olem


Delighted to welcome Vladislava Stoyanova to open our workshop with Human Rights Consortium NI on Rights for Everyone: Positive Obligations and the Protection of Humanity Rights



Vital that UK Prime Minister Hilary Benn & The Labour Party prioritise the delivery of our local Bill of Rights. The NI Assembly & Executive 🏛️ have clearly been unable to advance rights protections here without it. ⌛️Time for our Bill of Rights. ⚖️

Our Director Kevin Hanratty spoke at today’s launch of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and Equality Commission Annual Report on the Art 2 of the Windsor Framework - highlighting the important developments in the last year that show how Art 2 can protect rights in NI.

Today our colleague Olivia (She/Her) is United Nations Geneva 🇺🇳briefing ⚖️the UN Committee on the status of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in NI in advance of the review of UK for compliance with the ICESCR treaty tomorrow & Fri . Our Joint shadow report to the UN👉 shorturl.at/r5Heo
