Divorce Referendum: Why the Children’s Rights Alliance is supporting a YES vote

Ratify Hague Convention’ Urges Alliance

The current lapsing of a bilateral adoption agreement between Ireland and Vietnam has spotlighted the need for the urgent ratification by Ireland of the Hague Convention on Inter-country Adoptions – […]
Parenting Today is far From Child’s Play. Value Parenting to create a Child-Centred Society

Former ISPCC Chief Executive and current Chief Executive of St Patrick’s Hospital Mr Paul Gilligan, who features in the latest edition of the Children’s Rights Alliance Podcast Series (published today), […]
Children and Family Relationship Bill 2014

Dr Deirdre Madden, University College Cork: Assisted Human Reproduction and Surrogacy in the Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014
Initial Submission on the Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014 to the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

This submission has been produced through collaboration and through the formation of a Working Group to review the Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014. These members include: Barnardos, EPIC, the […]
Child and Family Agency Bill 2013

New Child and Family Support Agency must be more than a Logo Switch

A symposium entitled “Embedding a Children’s Rights Approach into the new Child and Family Support Agency” is being held today (27 February 2013) in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. […]
Address by the Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald TD on the Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015

I am delighted to have been invited to speak today at the Children’s Rights Alliance seminar on the Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015. I would like to congratulate the […]
Tanya Ward on Newstalk The Right Hook: The Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015

Tanya Ward, Chief Executive of the Children’s Rights Alliance on Newstalk, The Right Hook, talking about The Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015.
The Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014: a Children’s Rights Perspective

The Children and Family Relationships Bill represents the most significant change in family law in a generation and attempts to reflect the social reality of contemporary family life in Ireland. […]