Do you understand human rights?
Do you know how equality laws affect your day-to-day life?
The Make Rights Real public awareness campaign aims to:
Show how human rights and equality are relevant to all our lives.
Help people understand their rights.
The campaign is an initiative of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, which was set up in November 2014 as an independent public body. The Commission’s goal is an inclusive Ireland where human rights and equality are fully enjoyed by everyone, everywhere.
The ‘Make Rights Real’ campaign is co-funded by the Progress Programme of the European Union.
Did you know?
The United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 to protect future generations from the repeat of gross human rights abuses that took place during World War II, particularly the Holocaust.
Did you know?
Up to 1976, women in Ireland were unable to own their homes outright. The laws in force at the time meant women had no right to share the family home and a woman’s husband could sell their property without her consent.
Did you know?
The gender pay gap in Ireland is 14.4 per cent. In other words, women in Ireland are paid over 14 per cent less than men.
DID YOU KNOW?
From September 2016, men in Ireland will be entitled – by law – to two weeks of paternity leave following the birth or adoption of a child.
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There are currently 607 families in homeless accommodation in Dublin.
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At least one in 10 adults of working age has a disability.
1 in 8 adults in Ireland have experienced discrimination (Source: CSO).
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the most translated document in the world. It has been translated into more than 300 languages and dialects, from Abkhaz to Zulu.
Only 16% of deputies in Dáil Éireann are women, compared to an average female representation in national parliaments in the EU of 28% (Source: CSO).
1 in 8 adults in Ireland have experienced discrimination (SOURCE: CSO).
Almost two thirds of people who experience discrimination do not take any action in response to their experience (SOURCE: CSO).
19% of adults in Ireland say they have no understanding of their rights under Irish equality law (SOURCE: CSO).
The most common grounds identified by people who experience discrimination in Ireland are age and race (SOURCE: CSO).
In Ireland, the highest rates of discrimination are reported by people from minority ethnic backgrounds and unemployed people (SOURCE: CSO).