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NIHRC Annual Human Rights Statement 2024 Launch

22 Nov 2024

Join us for the launch of our 2024 Annual Human Rights Statement taking place on Monday 9th December, from 12:30pm – 2pm, livestreamed from the Long Gallery, Parliament Buildings, Stormont.

Our Annual Human Rights Statement is a report on the state of human rights issues in Northern Ireland. It is published annually and details the Government's progress in tackling human rights issues in NI.

Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, a human rights lawyer and campaigner, Labour Peer and former Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales, will deliver the keynote address entitled: 'Human Rights: A Case for the Defence'.

The event will be introduced by the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, Edwin Poots, followed by an address from Alyson Kilpatrick, Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.

We hope you can join us for the event and look forward to seeing you there.


Please register for the Livestream here.


About Baroness Shami Chakrabarti

Shami Chakrabarti (Baroness Chakrabarti CBE PC) is a human rights lawyer and campaigner, Labour Peer and was Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales from September 2016 to April 2020. She was the Director of Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties) from 2003 to 2016 and its In House Counsel from 2001 to 2003. Prior to that she was at the bar and then a Home Office lawyer (1996-2001). She is the Chair of London’s Gate Theatre.

She was a panelist on the Leveson Inquiry into media culture, ethics and practice after the phone-hacking scandal in 2011/12 and one of an international group who carried the Olympic flag at the opening of the London games in 2012.

She was the Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University and of the University of Essex and has been an Honorary Professor at the Universities of Bristol and Manchester and the London School of Economics. She served on the Board of the British Film Institute (BFI) for many years and on the Members Council of the Tate. She is a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple.

She has written and broadcast widely and is the author of three books; “On Liberty” (2014),“Of Women” (2017) and “Human Rights: The Case for the Defence” (2024). They are published by Penguin, Allen Lane.

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