Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission was created in 1999.
We shall overcome
hi i think it was NICRA Northern Ireland civil rights association
Indian Rights Association was created in 1882.
Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights was created in 1942.
National Youth Rights Association was created in 1998.
American Association for Palestinian Equal Rights was created in 2003.
National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights was created in 1853.
The marchers, organised by the NICRA (Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association) were protesting against internment in Northern Ireland. This is where the security forces arrested and imprisoned many people - mostly Catholic nationalists (many innocent) - without trial or any kind of charge against them.
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Simply, because many people in Northern Ireland were being denied their civil rights, and so they and others went to support a movement that was trying to get them.
Yes, same-sex couples have full joint adoption rights in Northern Ireland.
It created tremendous relief at the Northern Ireland health regulator, the RQIA, by taking on from RQIA a particularly disliked member of staff, Virginia McVea, even though she did not meet the advertised criteria for the job of director of the NIHRC.