Troubles

Northern Ireland's Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information (ICRIR) is "irreparably toxic and tainted" and should be scrapped, Amnesty International has said. The human rights organisation issued a statement ahead of Friday's Northern Ireland Court of Appeal ruling in the Dillon cas

The UK government is to abandon an appeal of the Northern Ireland High Court's finding that the previous government's controversial legacy law is in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Labour government has already pledged to "repeal and replace" the Northern Ireland Troubles (Leg

Human rights campaigners have urged Sir Keir Starmer to repeal the previous government's controversial Northern Ireland legacy law as soon as possible. Labour's manifesto included a commitment to “repeal and replace” the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023, whi

Ireland will take the UK to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) over a controversial law ending criminal and civil proceedings related to killings during the Troubles, the Irish government has confirmed. Victims and survivors of the Troubles had urged the Irish government to take the rare ste

MPs have been urged to reject the UK government's controversial Northern Ireland legacy bill as it returns to the House of Commons for its final stages. The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill aims to end criminal investigations and civil cases linked to the Troubles, instead

Proposed UK government amendments to its controversial Troubles bill do not address concerns raised by victims and human rights campaigners and some of them "would actually make the bill worse", according to a new analysis. Northern Ireland's Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) and acad