The Human Rights Commission will hold a community session at Conway Education Centre on Wednesday 1 July, from 10am to 12noon. The Commissioners will give a short overview of their work, followed by an opportunity to raise issues or give your views of their work.

These issues could relate to:  

• Generations living in poverty trap, high percentage of children living in poverty in West Belfast
• Long waiting times for proper housing,
• Bad state of housing,
• Rights of ex-political prisoners
• Right of LGBT people to full equality
• Long waiting times to get appointment with GP or dentist,
• Irish language provision and lack of public services through Irish
• Issues around discrimination and hate-crime
• Rights of Asylum seekers, refugees and migrant communities
• Rights of people with a disability
• Rights of Traveller community
• Lack of full educational opportunities for young people excluded from mainstream school
• Rights of older people, care of older people, etc.

And I’m sure there are many more issues you work with on a daily basis that could be raised at this meeting.

Please RSVP to Brenda (bkelly@conwayeducation.org) or Clare (canderson@conwayeducation.org) .

Please forward this invitation to anyone you think might be interested. Looking forward to seeing you at CEC on Wednesday 1 July at 10am.