Responding to news that a number of political parties have tabled Bills at the Northern Ireland Assembly to introduce marriage equality and to reform the law on abortion, Patrick Corrigan, Amn

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‘The reality is that items intended to inflict horrific levels of human suffering are openly on display at trade fairs in Europe’ - Iverna McGowan

‘The last Assembly repeatedly failed to deliver marriage equality for Northern Ireland. The new Assembly must put that right.’ – Patrick Corrigan

‘This reckless decision by the Kenyan government is an abdication of its duty to protect the vulnerable’ - Muthoni Wanyeki

‘World leaders cannot go on lurching from crisis to crisis, haggling over numbers’ - Sherif Elsayed-Ali

A Mexican man unfairly imprisoned in what appears to be a punishment for his peaceful activism against illegal logging must be released immediately and unconditionally, Amnesty International said a

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