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| | Ireland. In: Amnesty International Report 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | AI was concerned that in favouring an ''interpretative'' incorporation of the Convention, the Irish government fell short of meeting its requirements under the Agreement, as this would not provide people with full access to the rights in the Convention. |
 | | In July the UN Human Rights Committee examined Ireland's second periodic report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. |
 | | The Equal Status Act, which was brought into force in October, outlaws discrimination by those providing both public and private services and is designed to combat discrimination on nine grounds: gender, race, religion, age, sexuality, disability, membership of the Traveller community and family and marital status. |
| web.amnesty.org /web/ar2001.nsf/webeurcountries/IRELAND?OpenDocument (931 words) |
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