Human Rights Organisations Join Forces to Change Irish Constitution

Amnesty International joined forces with 19 human rights groups to widen the scope of the constitutional convention.
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Human Rights Organisations Join Forces to Change Irish Constitution
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WHO'S IN HER CORNER?: A homeless woman holds out a cup for money on The Ha'Penny Bridge on December 1st, 2010 in Dublin, Ireland. In a poll, 78 per cent of Irish people wanted the right to adequate housing enshrined in the constitution

Amnesty International has joined forces with 19 other human rights groups to urge the Irish government to widen the scope of the constitutional convention, a forum to deliberate changes to Ireland’s constitution. 

The organisations published an open letter to the Taoiseach requesting that the government not leave out a number of rights (such as equal access to healthcare and housing) from the reform process, lest the convention fail in its aim to make the constitution well suited to meet the “challenges of the 21st century”