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Abortion - One of my friend was in a similar situation as Amanda mellet?

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  • #2
    FortySeven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭FortySeven


    kevincool wrote: »
    Hi,
    Read the below article just now

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2016/1130/835621-united-nations-abortion-amanda-mellet/

    One of my friend was in a same situation a year back. To whom should she be complain her ordeal?

    The UN human rights commission.


  • #3
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,998 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    You can only make a complaint to the UN Human Rights Commission when you have "exhausted your domestic remedies". Now that the State has paid compensation to Amanda Mellet, and therefore it has been established that compensation is payable, I think it might be necessary for any other claimant to apply for similar compensation - either directly to the Dept of Health, or through the courts - and have the application refused before the UNHRC would entertain a complaint.

    Maybe best to raise this on the Legal Discussion forum.


  • #4
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    .


    http://bit.ly/2gKBb94



    Prof Sarah Cleveland, an independent member of the UN committee, has told The Irish Times that if women in a similar situation to Ms Mellet took a case to the committee, the Government would also be required to pay them compensation.

    Ms Mellet had taken a case against Ireland to the UN Human Rights Committee, which found that her rights had been breached by Ireland’s strict ban on abortion.


  • #5
    Mutant z
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Mutant z


    Surely a woman should be able to do what she wants with her own body.


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