Committee Against Torture to examine Ireland’s compliance with convention

Ireland criticised for holding immigration detainees alongside sentenced prisoners

Psychologists report having to counsel abuse survivors after using Caranua’s services

Government’s refusal to accept liability violates survivors’ dignity

Minister for Children to seek approval to stop practice condemned by UN rights committees

Many women were born in State homes then sent to industrial schools and laundries

Human rights lawyers have been held since nationwide crackdown in July 2015

Forced confessions remain a key part of the criminal justice system, rights group says

Group tells Minister for Children commission of inquiry must be inclusive, wide-ranging

‘Continued refusal’ to offer compensation to Magdalene laundry survivors highlighted

Second time human rights body has criticised Holy See’s handling of abuse this year

Marie Collins speaks in Rome after first meetings of new body

Former chief executive claims board for safeguarding children being starved of funds

United Nations Committee Against Torture (Uncat) queries limitations in the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act

McAleese Committee ‘tasked solely with investigating the issue of state involvement with the Laundries’

Allegations of systematic abuse not sustained, department tells UN watchdog

Maeve O’Rourke represented victims of the church-run Magdalene Laundries at the Irish Human Rights Commission, the UN Committee against Torture and the UN Human Rights Council

Survivors will qualify for payments of up to €100,000

Torture committee says McAleese inquiry fell short of its recommendations

Justice for Magdalenes has ‘achieved all that it can’ through political lobbying