Human Rights Organisations Join Forces to Change Irish Constitution

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Amnesty International has joined forces with 19 other human rights groups to urge the Irish government to widen the scope of the constitutional convention, a forum to deliberate changes to Ireland’s constitution. 

The organisations published an open letter to the Taoiseach requesting that the government not leave out a number of rights (such as equal access to healthcare and housing) from the reform process, lest the convention fail in its aim to make the constitution well suited to meet the “challenges of the 21st century”