PILA Bulletin, 5 May 2010

In this week’s bulletin:

1. Standing notice – Join the PILA lawyers’ register!
2. Upcoming PILA international law seminar, 7 May 2010;
3. PILA hosts launch of Irish Human Rights Law Review, 20 May 2010;
4. Thirty-five years of Northside Community law Centre;
5. Governor of Mountjoy’s female prison resigns;
6. Equality Tribunal’s Annual Report sees threefold rise in discriminatory dismissals;
7. Northern Ireland: G and D: The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007;
8. UK: Absence of review mechanism renders permanent inclusion on sex offender register incompatible with European Convention on Human Rights;
9. UK: Council of Europe presses UK to introduce total ban on smacking children;
10. Commissioner for Human Rights intervenes before Court in asylum cases;
11. Spain Supports Judges Inquiry into Franco Regime;
12. U.S: Civil rights leader Dorothy Height dies aged 98;
13. Probono.net;
14. Fair Ireland Forum presents: ‘The Human Rights of Children and Families: prevention, intervention and support in times of crisis’, 11 May 2010;
15. Irish Women and Lawyers Association, Seminar on the Civil Partnership Bill 2009, 12 May 2010;
16. Access to Justice: For some or for all? Conference, 15 May 2010;
17. Law Society Annual Human Rights Lecture, 19 May 2010;
18. International Course on Children’s Rights titled ‘Children’s Rights in a Globalised World: from Principles to Practice’, 5-17 September 2010;
19. European Pro Bono Forum, Paris, 18-19 November 2010.