Jugendamtsterror und Familienrechtsverbrechen

Martin MITCHELL

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„Niemand darf der Folter oder unmenschlicher oder erniedrigender Strafe oder Behandlung unterworfen werden.“

"No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."

Re »Justice for Magdalenes« - »JFM«
»IHRC & Law Society of Ireland - 9thAnnual Human Rights Conference - Dr Katherine O’Donnell - UCD Women’s Studies Centre - October 2011« @ www.ihrc.ie/download/pdf/dr_katherine_odonnell_justice_for_the_magdalenes.pdf [ FINDINGS AND PUBLICATION OF THE IRISCH HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – a total of 29 pages – in large print ]

Therein contained at page 20 and at page 21 is also the following passage:

»Rights Claims: UNCAT
[ ie. presented to the UN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE ]

● the State’s ongoing failure to deal with the Magdalene Laundries abuse amounts to continuing degrading treatment in violation of Article 16 (given the continued absence of pensions, access to specialised health services, education or compensation for the women; the lack of access to records; and the ongoing stigma and sense of shame associated with the women’s incarceration);
● since Ireland ratified the Convention on 11 April 2002, it has failed in its duty under Articles 12 and 13 to promptly and impartially investigate what there are reasonable grounds to believe constituted a more than 70-year system of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of women and girls in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries;
the State has failed in its obligation under Article 14 to ensure the women’s right to redress and compensation;
● the State was directly involved in the torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of women and girls in the Magdalene Laundries; and
● the State acquiesced in the torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of women and girls because of the State’s wilful failure to regulate or inspect the laundries despite its involvement in and knowledge of the laundries’ incarcerative and commercial functions.«

Therein contained at page 22 is also the following passage:

»Rights Claims: Other HR Violations
[ ie. other Human Rights Violations perpetrated by the Irish State ]

● JFM submits that the State’s complicity in the incarceration of women and girls in the laundries, its involvement in the laundries’ commercial operations, and its knowing failure to regulate and inspect the laundries, violated the State’s obligations under the following international Conventions:
● the 1926 Slavery Convention;
● the 1957 United Nations Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery;
● the 1930 International Labour Organisation Forced Labour Convention; and
● the 1957 Abolition of Forced Labour Convention«

Therein contained at page 23 is also the following passage:

»[ Irish ] State’s position at UNCAT
[ ie. the Irish State’s Response at the UN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE ]

● abuse happened a long time ago in private institutions
● the State has no complaints of criminal offences from laundry survivors
● the majority of women entered voluntarily, and if they were minors, with the consent of parents or guardians
● only one institution in Dublin was used as a remand centre«

Therein contained at page 24 is also the following passage:

»UNCAT’s Response
[ie. Response of the UN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE ]

[Magdalene Laundries]

[21.] “The Committee is gravely concerned at the failure by the State party to protect girls and women who were involuntarily confined between 1922 and 1996 in the Magdalene Laundries, by failing to regulate their operations and inspect them, where it is alleged that physical, emotional abuses and other ill-treatment were committed amounting to breaches of the Convention. […] The Committee also expresses grave concern at the failure by the State party to institute prompt, independent and thorough investigation into the allegations of ill-treatment perpetrated on girls and women in the Magdalene Laundries.”UNCAT “Concluding Observations,” 3 June 2011.« [ referred to as "the 2011 report" ]

Therein contained at page 25 is also the following passage:

»UNCAT Recommendation
[ ie. Recommendations of the UN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE ]

“The Committee recommends that the State party should institute prompt, independent, and thorough investigations into all allegations of torture, and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment that were allegedly committed in the Magdalene Laundries, and, in appropriate cases, prosecute and punish the perpetrators with penalties commensurate with the gravity of the offences committed, and ensure that all victims obtain redress and have an enforceable right to compensation including the means for as full rehabilitation as possible.”«

WIKIPEDIA @ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_against_Torture#Committee_against_Torture

»Committee against Torture [ CAT / UNCAT ]
[ ie. the UN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE ]

The Committee against Torture (CAT) is a body of human rights experts that monitors implementation of the Convention by State parties. The Committee is one of eight UN-linked human rights treaty bodies. All state parties are obliged under the Convention to submit regular reports to the CAT on how rights are being implemented. Upon ratifying the Convention, states must submit a report within one year, after which they are obliged to report every four years. The Committee examines each report and addresses its concerns and recommendations to the State party in the form of "concluding observations." Under certain circumstances, the CAT may consider complaints or communications from individuals claiming that their rights under the Convention have been violated.
The CAT usually meets in April/May and November each year in Geneva. Members are elected to four-year terms by State parties and can be re-elected if nominated.«

[ NOTE: "States" herein are defined as "Signatory Countries" / „Vertragspartner“ ]

See too WIKIPEDIA @ en.wikisource.org/wiki/Convention_against_Torture .

See too OHCHR @ www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CAT/Pages/CATIndex.aspx

For further more current information see the website of »Justice for Magdalenes« - »JFM« called »JFM RESEARCH - www.magdalenelaundries.com« @ www.magdalenelaundries.com/

For further more current information see »Restorative Justice for Magdalenes« (19.02.2014) @ www.irishexaminer.com/analysis/restorative-justice-for-magdalenes-259187.html
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