Our Work in Northern Ireland
Monitoring Attacks on Human Rights Defenders
Human Rights First has worked with Human Rights Defenders and others in Northern Ireland since the 1980s. We monitored attacks on human rights lawyers in the country and continue to advocate for greater protections for them and their work.
Accountability for Human Rights Violations
We have worked with local and international NGOs on campaigns calling for accountability for human rights violations committed during the 1969-1998 conflict. Human Rights First issued dozens of reports and other documents based on first-hand research in Northern Ireland.
Our Work
Belfast Judge Offers Hope to Springhill/Westrock Families Seeking Truth Before Deadline
Another Northern Ireland Human Rights Lawyer Under Attack
Amendments to UK’s Northern Ireland Conflict Bill Compound Injustice
What Biden Should Say in Belfast About Human Rights
Special Envoy Kennedy Faces Crucial Year in Northern Ireland
Calls for Solidarity as Attacks on Colin Harvey Intensify
International Expert Panel: State Impunity and the Northern Ireland conflict
Leading Human Rights Figure Under Attack in Northern Ireland
Families Preventing Britain from Burying the Truth on Irish Conflict
Cover-up in the Finucane Case + Brexit = Trouble in US-UK relations
British Government Proposes Amnesty for Killings That’s Worse Than Pinochet’s
Ballymurphy Families Win Decades-Long Fight For Official Truth
Beyond Collusion: The UK Security Forces and the Murder of Pat Finucane (2002)
A Troubling Turn: The Vilification of Human Rights Lawyers in Northern Ireland (2017)
A series of reports were produced by Human Rights First when it was the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights including Human Rights and Legal Defense in Northern Ireland: The Intimidation of Defense Lawyers, the Murder of Patrick Finucane (1993) and At the Crossroads: Human Rights and the Northern Ireland Peace Process (1996).
Recent Events
A webinar led by our Senior Advisor Brian Dooley with the Pat Finucane Centre, which is working to bring a non-violent resolution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.